Matrox Electronic Systems manual Connecting a video input to Meteor-II /Digital

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■Digital Video input. Used to receive digital video, as well as send and receive synchronization signals.

■Trigger input. A connector for direct trigger input in TTL or opto-isolated format.

■RS-232 input connector. Used as a standard RS-232 serial port interface.

■VMChannel. Used to send data to another Matrox board.

VMChannel

RS-232

Trigger input

Video input

Connecting a video input to Meteor-II /Digital

Connect video sources to Matrox Meteor-II /Digital’s video input connector, using the optional DBHD100-TO-OPEN. This cable can be customized to fit with the connector on your video source. See Appendix D for the pinouts, signals, and mating connector supplier.

Connecting Matrox Meteor-II /Digital to other boards

The VMChannel interface allows the transfer of data to other Matrox boards. Insert a VMChannel backplane (available with interconnect kits) across the VMChannel interface to connect the boards. Note that when connecting multiple Matrox boards, at least one of the boards you are connecting must be bus-controller capable. Matrox Meteor-II is not bus-controller capable.