Matrox Electronic Systems manual Matrox Meteor-II hardware reference

54 Chapter 5: Matrox Meteor-II hardware reference

Matrox Meteor-II hardware reference

This chapter provides information on the architecture, operating modes, and supported features of the Matrox Meteor-II boards.

For a summary of the information given in this chapter and detailed specifications of connectors and pinouts, refer to Appendices B, C, D, and E of this manual.

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard grab section

The grab section of the Matrox Meteor-II /Standard board uses

avideo decoder to capture composite RS-170, CCIR, NTSC, and PAL, and component (Y/C) NTSC and PAL.

BNC Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors

VMChannel (not available on CompactPCI and PC/104-Plus)

To DB-44 Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors

To 30-pin male, right-angle connector for PC/104-Plus form factor

Not available on CompactPCI form factor

VID_IN1				Low
VID_IN2				Pass	Gain Decoder
VID_IN3
				Filter
VID_IN4
VID_IN5		12:1
VID_IN6
			MUX
VID_IN7
VID_IN8
VID_IN9
VID_IN10
VID_IN11
VID_IN12
Trigger						Opto-
Aux	{	2				coupler
		2
RX
			RS-232
TX
/RTS			drivers &			UART
/CTS			receivers

24 32

VIA

32

MJPEG

Module

(optional)

64

SGRAM (4 Mbytes)

Not available on PC/104-Plus	Host 32-bit PCI bus
form factor