Matrox Meteor Assembly Instructions

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changes in specifications at any time and without notice. The

information provided by this document is believed to be accurate and

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Matrox Meteor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

What you need to get started. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Inspecting the Matrox Meteor package . . . . . .13

Standard package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Optional parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Handling components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Chapter 2: Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Installing Matrox Meteor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Attaching a video input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

No circuitry protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Chapter 3: Installing software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Installing the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Note about Intellicam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Chapter 4: Transferring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Transfer speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Chapter 5: Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards . . . . 27

Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards. . . . . . . 28

Multiple board installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Grabbing simultaneously from different boards29

Number of cameras per board . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

PCI bandwidth requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Chapter 6: Using Matrox Meteor/

RGB’s trigger input capability. . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the Matrox Meteor trigger . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Signal paths and requirements . . . . . . . . . 34

TTL pulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Pulse width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

No circuitry protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Appendix A: Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Common problems and solutions . . . . . . . . . . 38

Contacting Matrox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Appendix B: Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Global information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Grab information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Data transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Board input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

DB-9 female connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

S-VHS connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Phono connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Appendix C: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Customer support

❖Note, when a reference is made to Matrox Meteor or Matrox Meteor/RGB, the

information that follows also applies to the version of these boards that includes

the integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.

Chapter 1: Introduction

This chapter briefly describes the features of Matrox

Meteor.

8 Chapter 1: Introduction

Matrox Meteor

Matrox Meteor is a single-slot, monochrome and color PCI

frame grabber. It features real-time transfers to off-board

system or display RAM (depending on the system and VGA

board used) and provides support for live video-in-a-window.

You can use the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or any of its

derivatives to program Matrox Meteor.

Matrox Meteor comes in four versions:

■Matrox Meteor, a standard monochrome and color frame

grabber.

■Matrox Meteor/PPB, a standard monochrome and color

frame grabber with an integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.

■Matrox Meteor/RGB, an RGB color frame grabber.

■Matrox Meteor/PPB/RGB, an RGB color frame grabber with

an integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.

❖Note, when a reference is made to Matrox Meteor or Matrox

Meteor/RGB, the information that follows also applies to the

version of these boards that includes the integrated

PCI-to-PCI bridge.

Matrox Meteor 9

Acquisition

Matrox Meteor boards have standard monochrome and color

acquisition capabilities. They accept RS-170/CCIR

monochrome video signals and NTSC/PAL color video signals

in either a composite or Y/C (S-Video or S-VHS) format. They

have four software-selectable video input channels for

interfacingwithuptofourvideosources.Furthermore,foreasy

signal calibration, they support programmable brightness,

contrast, hue, and saturation.

Meteor/RGB boards provide support for component RGB

acquisition, with independent gain and offset controls for each

channel. They support all of Meteor’s input capabilities, except

for color video signals in Y/C format. This capability has been

exchanged for support of a synchronous trigger input (by way

of the Y/C connector).

For added flexibility, the Meteor/RGB frame grabber can

simultaneously grab from up to three standard monochrome

video sources, provided the sources are genlocked.In this case,

thethreeinputscannotbedisplayedinreal-timesincethevideo

data is packed (consecutive pixels belong to different channels).

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