Matrox Electronic Systems II manual Data transfer, Software, MIL-Lite

16 Chapter 1: Introduction

	Data transfer
	All versions of the Matrox Meteor-II board allow transfer of live
	video to Host memory or off-board display memory. To prevent
	loss of data during long bus-access latencies found in heavily
	loaded computer systems, the Matrox Meteor-II boards (except
	Meteor-II /1394) feature 4 Mbytes of SGRAM for temporary
	frame storage. All boards except Matrox Meteor-II /1394 are
	also equipped with the Matrox Video Interface ASIC (VIA).
	All PCI form factor boards (except the Meteor-II /1394) also
	have a VMChannel interface (non-bus controller), which is used
	to send data to other VM devices found on other Matrox imaging
	boards (for example, Matrox Corona, Matrox Genesis main
	board, or Matrox Genesis processor board)1.
	Software
	You can purchase one or more Matrox Imaging software
	products that support the Matrox Meteor-II board. These are
	the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and its derivatives
	(MIL-Lite, ActiveMIL-Lite, and Matrox Inspector). All Matrox
	software is supported under Windows; consult your software
	manual for supported Windows environments.
	MIL is a development library which provides an extensive list
MIL
	of commands used to capture, process, analyze, transfer,
	display, and archive images. Processing and analysis
	operations include: spatial filtering operations, morphological
	operations, measurements, blob analysis, optical character
	recognition (OCR), pattern matching, matrix/bar code reading,
	and calibration.
	MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL commands
MIL-Lite
	for image acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving.

1.Since the Matrox Meteor-II boards cannot perform the function of bus controller, they must be connected with at least one board which is bus controller capable, in order for VMChan- nel transfers to operate correctly.