Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards
This section describes how to use multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards. When a grab buffer is selected for display, grabbed images are displayed on the VGA, live or pseudo-live, depending on the operating computer and the position of the windows. Note that the PCI bandwidth is limited, and heavy usage can affect the data transfer in computers using multiple boards.
Multiple board installation
Install each additional Matrox Meteor-II board, PCI and CompactPCI form factors, as you installed the first board (refer to Chapter 2). In other words, place each additional board in an empty slot. For the PCI form factor, ensure that the installed boards avoid the CPU heat sink.
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox Meteor-II PCI/CompactPCI boards installed in your computer at one time; this number is, however, limited by the number of empty slots in your computer and, for simultaneous grabs, by the available bandwidth of your computer (discussed later in this chapter).
Using MIL-Lite, you have to allocate a MIL system for each board and allocate the resources of each MIL system.
