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1. PC 104 Plus PC gt PC 104 ISA Expansion module connectors Video input connector Board input and output connectors 85 Video inputconnectoron Matrox Meteor ll for PCI and CompactPCI pin 30 nai pin 31 pin 16 The video input connector is a high density DB 44 female pin 1 connector on the PCI and CompactPCI form factors Its pinout is shown below Note the Form F actor column specifies the board which supports that particular pinout Pin Signal 1 O Description Form Factor 1 DC_OUT oO 12 V 5 V Power Supply PCI 2 VID_IN12 I Analog Video Input 12 or C6 PCI 3 5 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 6 CTS I Clear To Send RS 232 PCI CompactPCI 8 USER 2 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 2 PCI CompactPCI 9 USER 2 IN I Auxiliary User Input 2 PCI CompactPCI 11 VID IN5 I Analog Video Input 5 or C4 PCI CompactPCI 13 VID IN3 I Analog Video Input 3 or Y2 PCI CompactPCI 14 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 15 VID INI I Analog Video Input 1 or Y1 PCI CompactPCI 16 DC_OUT Oo 12 V 5 V Power Supply PCI 17 18 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 19 VID IN10 I Analog Video Input 10 or C5 PCI 86 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard Pin Signal 1 O Description Form Factor 20 VID IN9 I Analog Video Input 9 or Y5 PCI 2
2. Remove pin D30 in a 3 3 V system PC 104 Plus _ _ PCI PC 104 Plus expansion site Signalling Pin to remove environment O J 3 connector 5V Al 3 3V D30 J3 J1 eo o o 30 ER 3529 NZ Sees EIN vem es oojo o 99090 eg Doo GO 60 00 91099 o olo o 992 o olo o Be oe ojo o Ra o 0 oo0 9990 Dolor oo0o 8808 TCD o 99 9000 89 oOo 0 0 oo o de 5 1 oo DCBA 1906 BA Remove pin A1 in a 5 V system Top view PC 104 ISA 2 Connect the Matrox Meteor I MJ PEG moduletothe board if required See the section Installing the M atrox M amp eor l MJ PEG module 30 Chapter 2 Hardware installation 3 Check that you havean available P C 104 Plus connector on the motherboard or verify that your existing stack can support another board 4 f you have existing PC 104 boards in your computer remove them and stack them on the PC 104 Plus board PC 104 boards must be stacked last 5 Removetheanchoring screws from thestack donot discard them since you will need them to fasten the M atrox M eteor II board 6 Carefully position Matrox M eteor I over the connectors and press the board firmly into place 7 Replacethe anchoring screws 8 Set the rotary switch next to the PC 104 ISA connector toO if installing the first stackable module or another appropriatesettingif not thefirst Seethesection Multiple board installation in C
3. On separate bracket RS 422 LVDS Drivers amp Receivers TTL Buffers Opto coupler PSG RS 232 Drivers and Receivers gt UART VIA 32 64 SGRAM 4 MB Matrox Meteor Il is available with either RS 422 or LVDS support Performance Host 32 bit PCI bus The video timing parameters supported by the Matrox Meteor I Digital board are as follows Max Number of pixels line including sync and blanking 65536 Number of lines frame including sync and blanking 65536 Sampling rate LVDS or LVDS with external clock input 40Mhz Sampling rate RS 422 or RS 422 with external clock input 25 Mhz 66 Chapter 5 Matrox Melteor Il hardware reference Synchronization Valid Clock UART Matrox Meteor 11 Digital features a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UART that provides an RS 232 serial interface For example this allows remote camera configuration a motion control unit or of a program logic controller PLC TheUART is programmed usingtheMIL L ite function MdigControl with the M UART control types Lookup table LUT The Matrox Meteor I Digital board has four 256x8 bit programmable lookup tables The LUTs on Matrox Meteor Digital can be operated as four 8 bit lookup tables two 10 bit lookup tables or two 12 bit look
4. The polarity of the active and inactive levels of the trigger signal are software programmable Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel can also operate in asynchronous reset mode n this mode the digitizer resets the camera tobegin a new framewhen thetrigger signal is received Trigger signals can bereceived in TTL format directly through thevideo input connector on the PCI formfactor TheTTL level signal must have a maximum amplitude of 5 V A signal over 2V is considered high while anything less than 0 8 V is considered low Thetransition of 0 8 V to2 V is considered to betherising edge Thetrigger signal s pulse width must be greater than one pixel You can determinethe pulse width by takingtheinverse of the pixel frequency F or example if the pixel frequency is 12 27 MHz the minimum pulse width is 1 12 27 MHz 82 nanoseconds Note the PC 104 Plus form factor does not support a TTL trigger opto isolated trigger Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel grab section 63 Trigger signals connected tothe OPTOTRI G andOPTOTRIG input pins pass through an opto coupler a devicethat protects the board from outside surges OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source The voltage difference across OPTOTRIG and OPTOTRI G must be between 4 05 V and 9 16 V for logic high and between 5 0 V and 0 8 V for logic low Refer to Appendix C for the pinouts of these signals on your board UART Matrox M eteor 11 Multi
5. 68 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference Matrox Meteor ll 1394 Matrox M eteor Il 1394 is capable of acting as bus manager cycle master isochronous resource manager and node controller root The cycle master triggers the data signal at 125 microsecond intervals Theisochronous resource manager isresponsiblefor reserving distributing and managingthetwo modes of data streams isochronous and asynchronous along the available bandwidth The root controller can control all peripheral devices connected up to a maximum of 62 The 1394 bus transfers real time isochronous data streams through a four layered architecture two of which are implemented in hardware the Physical Layer and theLink Layer 3 3V regulator 6 pin IEEE 1394 Physical Connector Input i4 v 6 pin IEEE 1394 Connector Input __ q 6 pin IEEE 1394 input Connector i 12V input Optional isolation barrier Host 32 bit PCI bus Inputs Matrox M eteor I 1394 has three IEEE 1394 input ports to which 1394 devices can beattached aslongastheconfiguration of devices complies with the IEEE 1394 tree topology Serial data bus rates of 100 200 or 400 M bits per second are shared across the three ports MIL Lite can be used to grab from monochrome or color digital cameras that are compliant with the IEEE 1394 Digital Camera Specification DCS Note that YUV 4 2 2
6. cameras genlocked 50 grabbing images 50 multi tap 70 number of cameras per board 50 connectors BNC Standard 36 90 camera power supply 1394 42 Standard 36 90 112 RS 232 input Digital 40 trigger input Digital 106 video input 1394 42 Digital 104 Multi Channel 38 96 Standard 34 35 85 VMChannel 71 Digital 40 107 Standard 36 88 Control signals Digital 66 core logic chipset 18 D data interfaces PCI interface 70 VIA 70 VMChannel 71 VMChannelconnectors VMChannel 71 data transfer 16 DMA memory 77 environmental specifications 1394 113 Digital 108 Multi Channel 100 Standard 92 G grab section control signals Digital 66 gain control Multi Channel 59 Standard 56 lookup table Digital 66 Multi Channel 63 low pass filter Multi Channel 59 Standard 55 performance Digital 65 Multi Channel 59 Standard 55 trigger Digital 67 Multi channel 62 Standard 56 video decoder Standard 55 grabbing from multiple boards 50 H hardware connecting external devices 33 PCI slot 18 77 reference 54 heat sink 25 48 installation CompactPCI form factor 27 MJPEG module PC 104 Plus 32 PCI and CompactPCI 31 multiple boards PC 104 Plus 49 PCI and Compact PCI 48 overview 21 PC 104 Plus form factor 29 PCI form factor 24 software 46 IRQ conflicts 79 J Jumpers Digital 107 L low pass filter Multi Channel 59 Standardl 55 M master mode 61
7. 14 VID2 INS BLUE Analog Video Input Channel 2 15 USER 2 IN Auxiliary User Input 2 16 USER 1 IN j Auxiliary User Input 1 17 USER 1 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 1 18 USER 2 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 2 19 EXP 1 Exposure 1 TTL 20 EXP 2 Exposure 2 TTL 22 TRIG Trigger TTL 23 OPTOTRIG Opto isolated trigger negative input 24 OPTOTRIG Opto isolated trigger positive input 26 CLK_IN Clock input TTL 28 CLK_OUT O Clock output TTL 29 IVSYNC 1 O Vsync input or output TTL 30 HSYNC 1 O Hsync input or output TTL Board input and output connectors 99 Pin Signal 1 0 Description 1 3 5 7 GND Ground 9 11 13 21 25 27 The connector used is a 30 pin male 0 050 pitch right angle connector For customers planning to build their own cables parts can be purchased from Manufacturer Fujitsu m Connector FCN 217 030 G O This connector interfaces with a ribbon cable 0 025 inch pitch 0 635 mm AWG 80 solid wire VMChannel interface connector The VM Channel interface allows Matrox M eteor I I Multi Channel to share data with any Matrox imaging board that has a VM Channel interface capable of performing the bus controller function A VM Channel backplane available with the GEN BUSJ interconnect kits must be inserted across the VMChannel interfaces of the boards For pinout information see VM Channel interfac
8. Matrox Meteor II package optional items 19 standard package 19 Matrox Meteor II system requirements 18 Matrox MJPEG Module 71 compression 73 decompression 74 FPGA 73 memory 70 performance 70 MJPEG decompression 74 mode master 61 slave 61 multiple Matrox Meteor II boards grabbing 50 PCI bandwidth 48 51 multi tap cameras 70 Oo optional items DBHD100 TO OPEN 20 DBHD44 TO 8BNC 20 Matrox MJPEG module 19 MIL 19 MIL Lite 19 P PCI bandwidth 48 1394 51 bus 70 slot 18 77 Physical Controller 69 pinouts camera power supply connector Multi Channel 92 99 100 Standard 91 112 camera power supply selection Standard 92 RS 232 input connector Digital 106 Trigger input connector Digital 106 video input connector Digital 104 Multi Channel 96 Standard 85 VMChannel Standard 88 S SGRAM Matrox Meteor II boards 16 slave mode 61 specifications electrical 1394 113 Digital 108 Multi Channel 100 Standard 92 environmental 1394 113 Digital 108 113 Multi Channel 100 Standard 92 technical Digital 102 110 Multi Channel 94 Standard 82 synchronization 61 T technical information 1394 110 Digital 102 Multi Channel 94 Standard 82 timing field rate Standard 55 line rate Standard 55 lines frame Digital 65 Multi Channel 59 Standard 55 pixel rate Standard 55 pixels line Digital 65 Multi Channel 59 Standard 55 sampling rate Digital LVDS 65 RS 422
9. non condensing 1 This number a the total power consumption of the Matrox Meteor II 1394 board only It does not include the power consumption of a device attached to the 1394 network 114 Appendix E Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Appendix F Listing of Matrox Meteor Il Boards This appendix lists specific versions and revisions of Matrox Meteor Il boards including the MJPEG module 116 Appendix F Listing of Matrox Meteor Il Boards Matrox Meteor Il boards Board Version Description PCI form factor Matrox Meteor 11 750 00 rev A Original version Standard PCI 750 01 rev A No functional change 750 02 rev A Added expansion connectors moved up from 4 to 7 inputs 750 02 rev B No functional change 750 0201 rev A Support for KS0127 rev B video decoder and moved up from 7 to 12 inputs Matrox M eteor l I Standard CompactPCI 807 00 rev A Original version 807 00 rev B No functional changes 807 0001 rev A Support for KS0127 rev B video decoder Matrox Meteor 11 751 00 rev A Original version M ulti Channel PCI 751 01 rev A No functional change Matrox Meteor 11 752 00 rev A Original version Digital PCI 752 01 rev A No functional change 752 02 rev A No functional change PC 104 Plus form factor Matrox Meteor l I Standard PC 104 Plus 885 00 rev A Original version 885 00 rev B No fu
10. 12 V 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 V For customers building their own cable the part number of the camera supply connector is as follows m Manufacturer VEN m Connector 2490 04PRT Auxiliary power supply selection Thefollowingdiagramshowsthelocation of theauxiliary power supply selection and their corresponding pin numbers 5V poteva pin 1 pin 2 pin 3 3 NA 92 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard ea 1 2 3 pin pin pin Side view Asshown in thetable below placethejumper across pins 1 and 2 for a 45 V supply output and across pins 2 and 3 for a 12 V supply output Pin Description 1 2 5 V default 2 3 12 V By default auxiliary power supply is strapped for 5 V pins 1 2 Specifications Electrical Form Factor Operating Voltage and current Power Consumption 5V 45 5 V 45 3 3 V 3596112 V 10 12 V 10 PCI and 1 25 A n a n a 250 MA 50 mA 9 85 W CompactP Cl PC 104 Plus 100mA 25mA 11A 150 mA n a 6 06 W a This number represents the total power consumption of the Matrox Meteor II board only It does not include the power consumption of a Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module or of a camera which draws current through the auxiliary power supply input Environmental m Min max ambient operating temperature 0 C 55 C um Min max storage temperature 40 C 75 C m Max altitu
11. 18 2 38 4 St 6 Pin Signal 12 V 1 25A max GND TPB TPB TPA TPA olg BR wl ho e 112 Appendix E Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Auxiliary power supply input The auxiliary power supply input is a standard 4 pin male connector Usethe cable provided with your board to connect to the power supply of your computer N5 C T N The pinout of the auxiliary power supply input is as follows AL Pin Description 12 V Ground 1 2 3 Ground 4 not used The part number of the camera supply connector is as follows m Manufacturer VEN m Connector 2490 04PRT References For further reading consult Anderson Don FireWire System Architecture Reading Massachusetts Mindshare Inc 1998 Henehan Burke 1394 Firewire Hardware Design Considerations Multimedia Systems Design Mar 1998 Or see http www msdmag com Specifications 113 Specific ations Electrical Operating voltage and current m 5 V 45 250 mA m 12 V 10 50 mA Power consumption m 7 36 watts Environmental m Min max ambient operating temperature 0 C 55 C Min max storage temperature 40 C 75 C m Max altitude for operation 3000 meters m Max altitude for transport 12000 meters m Operating humidity 20 8096 relative humidity
12. Interface JPEG Processor JPEG Code 8 Processor Interface 7 Interface MJPEG Module Progressive Path MJPEG FPGA Memory Port VIA SGRAM Interface Port 16 Chapter I Introduction MIL MIL Lite Data transfer All versions of the M atrox M eteor II board allow transfer of live videoto Host memory or off board display memory To prevent loss of data during long bus access latencies found in heavily loaded computer systems the M atrox M eteor I boards except M eteor I 1394 feature 4 M bytes of SGRAM for temporary frame storage All boards except M atrox M eteor Il 1394 are also equipped with the Matrox Video Interface ASIC VIA All PCI form factor boards except the Meteor 11 1394 also havea VM Channel interface non bus controller which is used tosend datatoother VM devices found on other M atroximaging boards for example M atrox Corona Matrox Genesis main board or Matrox Genesis processor board Software You can purchase one or more Matrox I maging software products that support the Matrox Meteor I board These are the Matrox I maging 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 of commands used to capture process analyze transfer display and archive images Proces
13. Matrox Meteor Il boards Matrox M eteor I comes in four versions Matrox M eteor l l Standard Matrox Meteor II Multi Channel Matrox Meteor I Digital and Matrox Meteor I 1394 Some of these boards are available in different form factors namely PCI CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus All boards and form factors support real time image transfer to H ost memory and can be programmed with the Matrox I maging Library MIL or any of its derivatives Matrox Meteor Il Standard Matrox Meteor I Standard is a standard monochrome and color analog frame grabber This board is availablein a PCI PC 104 Plus or CompactPCI 3U form factor all of which can use a Matrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module for compression and decompression of monochrome and color images VMChannel not available on CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus Gain Decoder MJPEG Module optional Opto coupler SGRAM 4 Mbytes RS 232 drivers amp receivers Host 32 bit PCI bus Acquisition features Matrox Meteor ll boards 11 Matrox M eteor 11 Standard can acquire different types of standard video formats using its video decoder The video decoder can accept composite CVBS and component Y C video in NTSC PAL formats and convert it to RGB 8 8 8 YUV 4 2 2 stored in YUYV format or YUV 4 1 1 with either square pixels or CCI R 601 resolutions It can also convert composite RS 170 CCIR video formats with square pixels
14. as well as send and receive synchronization signals and power a VMChannel connector Used to send data to another Matrox board 38 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Auxiliary power supply input Used to route power from your computer through the Matrox Meteor I board to your camera a Expansion moduleinterface U sedtoconnect the optional Matrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module for image compression and decompressi on VMChannel Connector 1 male for expansion module Connector 2 female for expansion module Connecting a video inputto Meteor Il Multi Channel Connect video sources to Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel s video input connector using the optional DBHD44 TO 8BNC cable This cable has eight BNC connectors and a 44 pin high density D Subminiature plug The wires of the cable are color coded as follows Wires Signals Description RED 1 VID1 IN1 Analog Video nput1 R GREEN 2 VID1 IN2 Analog Video I nput2 G BLUE 3 VID1 IN3 Analog Video nput3 B BLACK 4 SYNC_IN SYNC input GREY 5 OPTOTRIG External trigger input WHITE 6 VID2 IN1 Analog Video nput4 R YELLOW 7 VID2 IN2 Analog Videolnput5 G PURPLE 8 VID2 IN3 Analog Video input6 B Connecting external devices 39 OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source Connecting Matrox Meteor Il Multi C hannel to other boards The VM Channel interface allows the transfer of da
15. 20 26 DATA 21 60 DGND 89 90 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard Pin Signal Pin Signal 27 DATA 22 61 DATA 23 28 DGND 62 DATA 24 29 DATA 25 63 DGND 30 DATA 26 64 DATA 27 31 DGND 65 DATA 28 32 DATA 29 66 DGND 33 DATA 30 67 DATA 31 34 DGND 68 SBN N C Not connected This means that the pin might be defined as part of the VM Channel interface standard but it is not used on the Matrox M eteor I Standard board BNC connector The BNC connector provides a single composite input to the Matrox M eteor Il Standard board Its pin assignments are as follows m 1 composite 1 or VID IN1 m 2 SHELL ground You can use a standard video cable available from your local electronic store to interface with this connector Auxiliary power supply input Theauxiliary power supply input connector is a standard 4 pin male connector that routes power from the computer to a camera via the DB 44 Use the 4 pin power cable provided with your board to connect to the power supply of your computer The operating current is 1 5 A with an auto resettablefuse Notethat this input is not availableon the CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus form factors Board input and output connectors 91 The pinout of the auxiliary power supply input connector is as follows Pin Description 1
16. Canadian and other international customers can return their products directly to our Canadian facility m Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd 1055 St Regis Blvd Dorval Quebec H9P 2T4 ProductAssistance Request Form Name Company Address Phone Fax E mail Hardware Specific Information Computer CPU System memory PCI Chipset System BIOS rev Video card used Resolution Network Card Network Software Other cards in system Software Specific Information Operating system Rev Matrox SW used Rev Compiler Rev Fill out only if you are returning a board RMA Who were you talking to in customer support Date board was received Date of failure MOD SER These numbers are on the label at the REV back of the board PMB PNS Can you reproduce the problem Yes 1 N od Is an error code displayed Yes C1 No O If so what code Continued on reverse Describe the problem Regulatory Compliance FCC Compliance Statement Waming Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for the compliance could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Note This device complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules Operation is subject tothe following t
17. Ltd country code 44 0 1753 665599 Image Tech uk matrox com UK or Benelux only 0 1753 665500 You will find up to the minute release information on our web site Internet Web site http www matrox com imaging ftp site ftp matrox com pub imaging Warranty This product is warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from dateof ddivery We will repair or replace products that prove to be defective during the warranty period provided they arereturned at the user s expense to M atrox Electronic Systems Limited No other warranty is expressed or implied Matroxis not liable for consequential damages If you wish toreturn your board contact the M atrox authorized dealer where you purchased the board for service Do not return a product to Matrox without authorization If for some reason you must return the board directly to Matrox follow these steps 1 Contact Customer Support see above for phone numbers Customer Support will ask you to describe the problem and will issue a Return Merchandise Authorization RMA number if necessary 2 Leavethe configuration as it was when you were using the board 3 Packthe board in its original box and return it with a completed Product Assistance Request form see the following page Retum address U S customers must return their products to our U S address m Matrox International Corp Trimex Building Mooers N Y 12958
18. Six monochrome or two RGB cameras can be attached VID IN1 1 VID IN1 2 VID IN2 1 VID IN2 2 VID IN3 1 VID IN3 2 SYNC IN Trigger Opto coupler PSG CIk input Clk output Hsync TIMES Vsync Drivers Trigger amp Exposure timer1 Receivers Exposure timer2 Aux 2 RX RS 232 TX Drivers IRTS and ICTS Receivers UART Not available on PC 104 Plus form factor VMChannel not available on CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus LUT 3 256x8 bit 24 32 24 a MJPEG Module optional VIA 8 SGRAM 4 Mbytes 32 Host 32 bit PCI bus RS 422 version of these signals are available on the optional RS 422 connector This connector is only available on Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel in a PCI form factor Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel grab section 59 Performance The video timing parameters induding those for progressive scan supported by the M atrox M eteor I Multi Channel board are as follows Max Number of pixels line including sync and blanking 4096 Number of lines frame including sync and blanking 4096 Sampling rate with external clock input or in 30MSPS line locking mode Notethat the maximum number of pixels per line that MIL supports is Pixels x Number of Lines lt 4 Mbytes Line Input channels The Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel has six independent analog channels These channels can support input from two RGB or six monochrome
19. cameras a Accepts an external trigger input and can operate in next valid frame field mode or asynchronous reset mode n Features three 256 8 bit input lookup tables that can output RGB 8 8 8 YUV 5 5 5 or YUV 5 6 5 a Features four M bytes of SGRAM a Features programmable reference levels a Features various input gain settings n Features an RS 232 port Board input and output connectors 95 a Features strap selectable 5 or 12 V DC output PCI form factor only a Features 32 bit bus controller VM Channel interface Board inputand output connectors The Matrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel PCI form factor has six interface connectors a VM Channel an auxiliary power supply input a video input two connectors for an expansion module VMChannel Auxiliary power supply input Connector 1 male for Video input expansion module Connector 2 female for expansion module 96 Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel PC 104 Plus form factor pin 30 pin 15 000000000000000 pin 1 0000000000000 ecoocooooocooooo Matrox M eteor I for the PC 104 Plus form factor stand alone version has five interface connectors video input two connectors for the expansion module a PC 104 Plus PCI connector and PC 104 ISA connector i Expansion module connectors PC 104 Plus PC 7 PCc 104 ISA Video input connector V
20. data is grabbed in UYVY format Physical Layer Link Layer Galvanic isolation barrier optional Matrox Meteor Il 1394 69 The physical layer PHY is part of a bi directional interface between the link layer Link and the actual IEEE 1394 serial bus The physical layer acts as a converter reformatting the commands and digital data it receives sothat the data can be transmitted over the serial bus The PHY monitors the line conditions to determining connection status for initialization andarbitration and for packet reception andtransmission The physical layer supports data transmission rates of up to 400 Mbits per second Thelink layer Link is the second component in the bi directional interface between the physical layer PH Y and PCI bus TheLink is a PCI to 1394 Host controller and is compliant with both PCI and 1394 OHCI specifications The link layer supports both asynchronous and isochronous data transfer between nodes When transmitting packets the Link must send a request tothe PH Y which controls the direction of transmission between the two layers Thelink layer also controls the transfer speed between itself and the PHY and supports data transfers of 100 200 or 400 M bits per second In addition the Link is capable of transferring a cacheline of data at 132 MBytes per second over the PCI bus after connecting to the memory controller on the Host In order to overcome high or long PCI latency the link l
21. devices In this section the boards will be discussed in the following order m Matrox Meteor I Standard for PCI m Matrox Meteor II Standard for CompactPCl m Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel for PCI m Matrox Meteor I Standard and Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus a Matrox Meteor Il Digital a Matrox Meteor l 1394 Matrox Meteor Il Standard for PCI Matrox M eteor I Standard has six connectors which are indicated in the diagram below Two of these connectors are located on its bracket The first four connectors listed are discussed in detail in Appendix B a Video input connector Used to receive analog video as well as send and receive synchronization signals and power m BNC connector Used to receive composite analog video Auxiliary power supply input Used to route power from your computer through the Matrox Meteor I board to your camera m VMChannel connector Used to send data to another Matrox board Expansion module interface Used to connect to the optional Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module for image compression and decompression 1 Matrox Meteor II Standard boards 750 00 rev A and 750 01 rev A do not support the Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module and therefore do not have these connectors 34 Chapter 2 Hardware installation VMChannel Auxiliary power supply input Connector 1 male for Video input expansion module C 2 female f BNC anen Raa Connectin
22. external trigger and can operate in either asynchronous reset mode or next valid frame field mode Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Matrox Meteor I 1394 is an IEEE 1394 to PCI adapter board that permitssimplified high performancedigital videocapture using a computer This board is only availablein a PCI form factor Optional isolation barrier Host 32 bit PCI bus Matrox Meteor I 1394 supports the transfer of monochrome or color digital video from cameras which are compliant with the IEEE 1394 Digital Camera Specification DCS Note Matrox M eteor I 1394 hasthreeinput ports which can be used for image acquisition Meteor Il Grab Port Interface Matrox Meteor ll boards 15 The Meteor I 1394 can also supply power from your computer through the IEEE 1394 interface Matrox Meteor Il MJ PEG module Matrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module is an optional board which module supports lossy and lossless MJ PEG interlaced and non interlaced compression and decompression of color and monochrome video There are two versions of the Matrox Meteor Il MJ PEG module one is for use with the PCI and CompactPCl form factors and the other is for use with the PC 104 Plus form factor TheM atrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module is not supported by Matrox Meteor I Digital and 1394 Pixel Data Strip Buffer SRAM Input Output Memory 64Kbytes Color Space Converter Host Interface Pixel Host Interface Interface Host
23. le brouillage radio lectrique dict par Industrie Canada EC Declaration of Conformity WARNING This is a class A product In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures AVERTISSEMENT Cet appareil est de la classe A Lorsque cet appareil est utilis dans un environnment r sidentiel il peut entrainer des interf rences radio lectriques Dans ce cas l usager peut tre pri de prendre des mesures correctives appropri es This device complies with EC Directive 89 336 E EC for a Class A digital device It has been tested and found to comply with EN55022 CI SPR22 and EN55024 CISPR 24 Le pr sent appareil num rique r pond aux exigences stipul es dans la directive europ enne 89 336 E EC prescrite pour les appareils num riques de dasse A Ce produit a t test conform ment aux proc dures EN 55022 CI SPR22 et EN55024 CI SPR 24
24. m Connector and shell ACON Advanced Connectek Inc HPBP 5100 10S N KN 6 If you are building your own cable ensure that it is a twisted pair type cable which is twisted along signal pairs 106 Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital RS 232 input connector TheRS 232 signals are routed through a 9 pin male connector on the second mounting bracket to a 10 pin RS 232 connector on the board see the installation diagram in Chapter 2 The pinouts of the 9 pin DB9 male connector are as follows Pin Signal Description 1 N C Not connected 2 RX Receive 3 TX Transmit 4 N C Not connected 5 GND Ground 6 N C Not connected 7 RTS Request To Send 8 CTS Clear To Send 9 N C Not connected Tigger input connector The trigger input connector is routed through the 9 pin female connector on the second mounting bracket to a 4 pin connector on the board The pinouts of the 9 pin DB9 female connector are as follows Pin Signal Description 1 TTL TRIG TTL trigger 2 OPTO TRIG Opto isolated trigger negative input 3 N C Not connected 4 N C Not connected 5 N C Not connected 6 GND Ground 7 OPTO TRIG Opto isolated trigger positive input 8 N C Not connected 9 N C Not connected Board input and output connectors 107 VMChannel interface connector The VM Channel interface
25. that accept non standard video sources Matrox I ntellicamalso hasthe ability to create custom digitizer configuration format DCF files which MIL and its derivatives useto interface to specific non standard video sources I ntellicamis included with both MIL and MIL Lite 1 Matrox Meteor II Standard and 1394 only support pre defined DCF files 18 Chapter I Introduction Other useful considerations What you need to get started To begin using Matrox Meteor 11 you need the following computer with a PCI bus and a Pentium processor or better Windows See your software package for supported environments and RAM requirements A computer with a relatively up to date PCI chipset such as thelntel 430H X 430VX 430T X 440F X 440L X or 440BX for full Matrox Meteor I functionality These chipsets are recommended because they offer the required sustained throughput to H ost memory A computer with an empty full length 32 bit PCI expansion slot bus master capable A CD drive and a hard disk or network drive on which to install the Matrox Meteor I software Inspecting the Matrox Meteor Il package 19 Inspecting the Matrox Meteor Il package Standard package When you unpack your Matrox Meteor I package you should check its contents Notethat optional parts might or might not be included depending on what you ordered If something is missing or damaged contact your M atrox representative If you o
26. 1 RTS Oo Request To Send RS 232 PCI CompactPCI 22 RX I Receive RS 232 PCI CompactPCI 23 VID IN8 I Analog Video Input 8 or Y4 PCI 24 USER 1 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 1 PCI CompactPCI 25 31 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 33 VID IN11 I Analog Video Input 11 or Y6 PCI 34 OPTOTRIG I Opto Isolated trigger negative input PCI CompactPCI 35 OPTOTRIG I Opto Isolated trigger positive input PCI CompactPCI 36 TX O Transmit RS 232 PCI CompactPCI 39 USER 1 _IN I Auxiliary User Input 1 PCI CompactPCI 40 VID_IN7 I Analog Video Input 7 or C3 PCI CompactPCI 41 VID IN6 I Analog Video Input 6 or Y3 PCI CompactPCI 42 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 43 VID INA I Analog Video Input 4 or C2 PCI CompactPCI 44 VID IN2 I Analog Video Input 2 or Cl PCI CompactPCI 7 10 Not used PCI CompactPCI 12 32 37 38 Use Matrox cable DBHD44 TO 13BNC to interface with this connector The cable has thirteen BNC connectors anda high density 44 pin D Subminiaturemaleconnector This cable allows you to attach up to twelve analog video sources and a trigger input An open ended version of this cable the DH44 TO 13BNC O is also available that can be used to access signals in addition to those described above Parts for cables can be purchased from m Manufacturer m Connector amp shell NorComp Interconnect Devices HDT44P 1 29 2 30 Board input and output connectors Video in
27. 6 DC POWER 12 V OR 5 V Power Supply 7 37 NC Not connected on METEOR II Multi Channel 3 5 14 GND Ground 17 18 25 31 42 Use Matrox cable DBHD44 TO 8BNC to interface with this connector It has eight BNC connectors and a high density 44 pin D Subminiature male connector This cable allows you to attach up to six video sources an analog sync and a trigger input An open ended version of this cable the DH44 TO 8BNC O is also available and can be customized to access signals in addition to those described above For customers planning to build their own cable parts can be purchased from m Manufacturer m Connector NorComp Interconnect Devices HDT44P 98 Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel e00006000000009 00000 0000000000 2 30 Video input connector on the Meteor Il Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus The video input connector on the M eteor 1l Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus is located on the top side of the board Its pinout is as follows Pin Signal 1 0 Description 2 VID1 INI RED Analog Video Input Channel 1 4 VID1 IN2 GREEN Analog Video Input Channel 1 6 VID1 INS BLUE Analog Video Input Channel 1 8 SYNC IN Analog Video Input SYNC 10 VID2 INI RED Analog Video Input Channel 2 12 VID2 IN2 GREEN Analog Video Input Channel 2
28. 635 mm AWG 3 amp 0 solid wire VMChannel interface connector The VMChannel interface allows Matrox Meteor Il Standard to share data with any Matrox imaging board that has a VMChannel interface capable of performing the bus controller function A VM Channel backplane available with the GE N BU S interconnect kits must be inserted across the VMChannel interfaces of the boards Notethe VM Channel is not supported on the CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus form factors pin 34 top view of board pin 1 component side pin 68 pin 35 side view of board pin 68 component side pin 35 Thefollowing table provides the pinout of the VM Channel interface Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 SAN 35 N C Board input and output connectors Pin Signal Pin Signal 2 N C 36 DGND 3 BSNIO 37 BSNII 4 DGND 38 SNRDYN 5 CONTROL 39 DGND 6 N C 40 DGND 7 CLK 41 DGND 8 VMSENSE 42 DGND 9 MASKO 43 MASKI 10 DGND 44 DATAIO 11 DATA 1 45 DGND 12 DATA 46 DATAI3 13 DGND 47 DATAI4 14 DATA 5 48 DGND 15 DATAI6 49 DATAI7 16 DGND 50 DATA 8 17 DATA 9 51 DGND 18 DATAI10 52 DATA 11 19 DGND 53 DATA 12 20 DATA 13 54 DGND 21 DATA 14 55 DATA 15 22 DGND 56 DATA 16 23 DATAI17 57 DGND 24 DATA 18 58 DATA 19 25 DGND 59 DATA
29. 65 Multi Channel 59 Standard 55 trigger Digital 67 Multi Channel 62 Standard 56 troubleshooting 76 V VIA 16 70 VIA s PCI port 70 video decoder 54 55 video formats supported 1394 14 68 Digital monochrome 64 RGB 64 Multi Channel monochrome 12 58 RGB 12 58 Standard monochrome 55 NTSC 11 PAL 11 Y C 11 54 VMChannel 16 70 71 Digital 107 Multi Channel 99 Standard 88 VMChannel backplane 88 99 107 voltage and current specifications 13941 113 Digital 108 113 Multi Channel 100 Standard 92 Customer support Note The most up to date telephone numbers are available from the Matrox internet web site If you have a question that is not answered in your manual in the release notes or in the readme files on the software CDs contact your local representative your regional Matrox office if applicable or Matrox Canada corporate headquarters To ensure that Customer Support can answer your questions quickly fill out and fax the Product Assistance Request form before calling Telephone Fax E mail Matrox Canada country code 1 514 822 6273 imaging techsupport matrox com corporate headquarters 514 822 6061 Matrox France SARL country code 33 0 1 45 60 62 05 Tech Support Imaging matrox fr France only 0 1 45 60 62 03 Matrox Electronic Systems country code 49 0 89 614 97 43 Imaging Germany matrox com GmbH Germany or Austria 0 89 614 47 40 only Matrox UK
30. ATA INPUT 12 76 DATA INPUT 28 27 DATA INPUT 13 77 DATA INPUT 29 28 DATA INPUT 13 78 DATA INPUT 29 Board input and output connectors 105 PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 29 DATA INPUT 14 79 DATA INPUT 30 30 DATA INPUT 14 80 DATA INPUT 30 31 DATA INPUT 15 81 DATA INPUT 31 32 DATA INPUT 15 82 DATA INPUT 31 33 HSYNC INPUT 83 HSYNC OUTPUT 34 HSYNC INPUT 84 HSYNC OUTPUT 35 VSYNC INPUT 85 VSYNC OUTPUT 36 VSYNC INPUT 86 VSYNC OUTPUT 37 GROUND 87 EXPOSUREI OUTPUT TTL 38 GROUND 88 EXPOSURE2 OUTPUT TTL 39 CLOCK INPUT 89 CLOCK OUTPUT 40 CLOCK INPUT 90 CLOCK OUTPUT 41 USER INPUT 0 91 USER OUTPUT 0 42 USER INPUT 0 92 USER OUTPUT 0 43 USER INPUT 1 93 USER OUTPUT 1 44 USER INPUT 1 94 USER OUTPUT 1 45 VALID INPUT 95 EXPOSUREI OUTPUT 46 VALID INPUT 96 EXPOSUREI OUTPUT 47 TRIGGER INPUT 97 EXPOSURE2 OUTPUT 48 TRIGGER INPUT 98 EXPOSURE2 OUTPUT 49 CAMERA CTRL BITO 99 CAMERA CTRL BITI OUTPUT TTL OUTPUT TTL 50 GROUND 100 CAMERA CTRL BIT2 OUTPUT TTL Customize the open ended M atrox DBHD100 TO OPEN input cable to interface with the connector on your video source F or customers planning to build their own cable parts can be purchased from m Manufacturer
31. Channel features a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UART that provides an RS 232 serial interface For example this allows you to remotely control a camera or a motion control unit or remotely communicate with a programlogic controller PLC TReUART is programmed using the MIL Lite command M digControl with the M UART control types Note that the UART is not present on the M eteor l I Multi Channel for PC 104 P lus Lookup table LUT Matrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel has three 256x8 bit input lookup tables LUTs allowing independent re mapping of three 8 bit input streams The LUTs on the Matrox M eteor II Multi Channel for PCI support RGB 8 8 8 24 bit output pixel formats The LUTs on the PC 104 P lus form factor support RGB 8 8 8 RGB 5 6 5 and RGB 5 5 5 output pixel formats LUTs are programmed using the MIL Lite command MdigL ut User bits Meteor Il Multi Channel supports four auxiliary TTL user bits through the video input connector two input and two output These are available for controlling external events such as a strobe light or PLC User bits are programmed using the MIL Lite command M digControl 64 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference Using the auxiliary power supply Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel can supply power to your camera Usethe 4 pin power cable provided with your board to connect to the power supply of your computer The operating voltage can be set to eithe
32. IG must be between 4 05 V and 9 16 V for logic high and between 5 0 V and 0 8 V for logic low Refer to Appendix B for the pinouts of these signals on your respective form factor User bits Matrox M eteor I Standard supports four auxiliary user bits through the video input connector two input and two output These are available for controlling external events such as a strobe light User bits are programmed using the MIL Lite command M digControl Using the auxiliary power supply Matrox Meteor I Standard can supply power to your camera Usethe 4 pin power cable provided with your board to connect tothe power supply of your computer The operating voltage can be set to either 5 V or 12 V but the current drawn by all cameras is limited to 1 5 A Thecircuit uses an auto resettable fuse For further information on connecting to the auxiliary power supply connector see the section Connecting M atrox M amp eor I Standard to the auxiliary power supply input in Chapter 2 and Appendix B Notethat thisinput is not available on the CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus form factors 58 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference To DB 44 Connector for PCI form factor To 30 pin male connector for PC 104 Plus form factor Matrox Meteor Il Multi C hannel grab section Thegrabsection of the M atrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel board captures monochrome or component RGB video signals from standard and non standard cameras
33. Il Standard board 82 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard Technical information This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor II Standard board General information m Operating system See your software manual for supported versions of Windows m System requirements A computer with a PCI bus and a Pentium processor or equivalent Some older systems use a core logic chipset interfaces PCI with Host memory that has limited throughput capabilities Matrox Meteor 11 Standard might not be able to attain full functionality on such systems We recommend systems with newer PCI chipsets such asthelntel 430H X 430VX 430TX 440F X 440L X or 440BX If you need more specific information regarding potential problems refer to Appendix A Troubleshooting m Technical features a PCI and PC 104 Plus form factors feature twelve software selectable channels which support up totwelve inputs in either monochrome RS 170 CCI R or composite NTSC PAL formats or up to six Y C video inputs in NTSC PAL formats n CompactPCI form factor features seven softwareselectable channels which support up to seven inputs in either monochrome RS 170 CCI R or composite NTSC PAL formats or up tothree Y C videoinputs NTSC PAL formats n Accepts an external trigger input which can operate in next valid frame field mode a Features programmable or automatic gain control n F
34. Matrox Meteor II Installation and Hardware Reference Manual no 10577 101 0300 December 9 1999 Matrox is a registered trademark of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd Microsoft MS DOS Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Intef Pentium and Pentium If are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Texas Instruments is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated PC 104 Plus is a trademark of the PC 104 Consortium CompactPCI is a trademark of PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group RAMDAC is a trademark of Booktree All other nationally and internationally recognized trademarks and tradenames are hereby acknowledged Copyright Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd 1999 All rights reserved Disclaimer Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd reserves the right to make changes in specifications at any time and without notice The information provided by this document is believed to be accurate and reliable However no responsibility is assumed by Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd for its use nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties resulting from its use No license is granted under any patents or patent rights of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd PRINTED IN CANADA Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Matrox Meteor II boards 10 Matrox Meteor II Standard 10 Matrox Meteor II Multi Chann
35. S 232 input and a digital interface VMChannel RS 232 Trigger input Video input 104 Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital Digital interface connector The digital interface connector has 100 pins The pinouts are as follows PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 DATA INPUT 0 51 DATA INPUT 16 2 DATA INPUT 0 52 DATA INPUT 16 E 3 DATA INPUT 1 53 DATA INPUT 17 4 DATA INPUT 1 54 DATA INPUT 17 H 5 DATA INPUT 2 55 DATA INPUT 18 6 DATA INPUT 2 56 DATA INPUT 18 7 DATA INPUT 3 57 DATA INPUT 19 E 8 DATA INPUT 3 58 DATA INPUT 19 9 DATA INPUT 4 59 DATA INPUT 20 10 DATA INPUT 4 60 DATA INPUT 20 11 DATA INPUT 5 61 DATA INPUT 21 12 DATA INPUT 5 62 DATA INPUT 21 13 DATA INPUT 6 63 DATA INPUT 22 14 DATA INPUT 6 64 DATA INPUT 22 15 DATA INPUT 7 65 DATA INPUT 23 16 DATA INPUT 7 66 DATA INPUT 23 17 DATA INPUT 8 67 DATA INPUT 24 18 DATA INPUT 8 68 DATA INPUT 24 19 DATA INPUT 9 69 DATA INPUT 25 20 DATA INPUT 9 70 DATA INPUT 25 21 DATA INPUT 10 71 DATA INPUT 26 22 DATA INPUT 10 72 DATA INPUT 26 23 DATA INPUT 11 73 DATA INPUT 27 24 DATA INPUT 11 74 DATA INPUT 27 25 DATA INPUT 12 75 DATA INPUT 28 26 D
36. allows Matrox Meteor 11 to share data with any Matrox imaging board that has a VM Channel interface capable of performing the bus controller function A VMChannel backplane available with the GEN BU SJ interconnect kits must be inserted across the VM Channel interfaces of the boards For pinout information see VMChannd interface connector in Appendix B Jumpers Each jumper connects a 1000 termination resistor between the two polarities of the following signals Jumper B1 B2 TRIG TRIG Jumper B3 B6 VSYNC VSYNC J umper B4 Bb HSYNC HSYNC J umper B7 B8 CLKIN CLKIN NY 108 Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital By default all jumpers are in place If more than one load for example two line locked cameras are to be connected to the TRIG VSYNC HSYNC or CLKIN thecorresponding jumpers should be removed Specifications Electrical Operating voltage and current m 5V 2596 1 4A m 12V 410 30 mA Power consumption m 7 36 watts Environmental a Min max ambient operating temperature 0 C 55 C m Min max storage temperature 40 C 75 C m Max altitude for operation 3000 meters m Max altitude for transport 12000 meters Operating humidity 20 8096 relative humidity non condensing Appendix E Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 1394 This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteo
37. als such as synchronization signals control signals and DC power output DBHDA4 TO 8BNC input cable with a high density 44 pin connector and eight BNC connectors for M eteor l I Multi Channel PCI form factor Three BNC TO SVHS Y C adapter cables are shipped with the DBHD44 TO 8BNC cable a DH44 TO 8BNC O input cable with a high density 44 pin connector available for the M atrox M eteor l I Multi Channel This cableis required if you want to connect to special input and output signals such as synchronization signals control signals and DC power output m DBHD100 TO OPEN cable for the 100 pin digital input connector on the Matrox Meteor I Digital board Cables for M atrox M eteor 11 1394 aretypically supplied with the camera Handling components The electronic circuits in your computer and the circuits on Matrox M eteor Il are sensitive to static electricity and surges Improper handling can seriously damage the circuits Be sure to follow these precautions m Drain static electricity from your body by touching a metal fixture or ground before you touch any electronic component m Avoid letting your dothing come in contact with the circuit boards or components Before you add or remove devices from your computer always turn off the power to your computer and all peripherals More information Conventions Installation overview 21 Installation overview Theinstallation procedure consists o
38. anual Matrox Meteor Il Standard grab section The grab section of the Matrox M eteor I Standard board uses a video decoder to capture composite RS 170 CCIR NTSC and PAL and component Y C NTSC and PAL VMChannel not available for on CompactPCI and PCI and Compact PC 104 Plus PCI form factors O 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 MJPEG Module optional SGRAM 4 Mbytes RS 232 drivers amp receivers Not available on PC 104 Plus form factor Host 32 bit PCI bus Matrox Meteor Il Standard grab section 55 Performance The video timing parameters supported by the Matrox Meteor 11 Standard board are as follows CCIR 601sampling Square pixel sampling rates rates NTSC PAL NTSC PAL Field rate Hz 60 50 60 50 Pixel line Pixels 858 864 780 944 Active pixel line Pixels 720 720 640 768 Active lines frame Lines 480 580 480 580 Pixel rate MHz 13 5 13 5 12 27 14 75 ADC sampling rate MHz 27 27 24 54 29 50 Line rate KHz 15 750 15 625 15 750 15 625 Input channels Matrox Meteor II Standard for PCI and PC 104 Plus can switch between up to twelve independent composite or six Y C video sources M atrox M eteor 11 Standard for CompactPCI can switch between seven independent composite sources or up
39. ayer also provides deep FIFOs The optional galvanic isolation barrier isolates the Matrox Meteor Il 1394 s ground from that of the 1394 network For example 1394 network could consist of several PCs or other devices such as a digital television or digital VCR If each device in thenetwork has a different ground a potential differenceis created across them this situation is called a ground loop and can eventually lead to loss of data or even damage to system components f a power surge occurs the circuit tries to ground excess power but the Matrox Meteor I 1394 would be protected because its ground is isolated from the rest of the network 70 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference Simultaneous data streams General features The VIA s PCI interface Data interfaces Video Interface ASIC With theexception of M eteor 11 1394 all M eteor 1l boards have a VIA which acts mainly as a bridge tothe PCI bus The VIA is capable of high speed image transfers to H ost memory or other PCI devices across the PCI bus It uses 4 Mbytes of SGRAM on board memory to store data until the PCI bus becomes available On the PCI form factor the VIA also supports imagetransfers across the VM Channel tooneor more Matrox imaging boards for accelerated image processing or display Matrox VIA can manage up totwo simultaneous data streams For example it can grab into SGRAM and concurrently transfer data over the VM Chann
40. board fails to start under Windows 2000 the driver might not have started Right click on My Computer and select Manage from the presented menu Select Computer in the Computer Management dialog box Select the View Hidden Devices command Select Device Manager in the left pane Select Non Plug and Play Drivers in theright pane Double click on the name of your Matrox driver Select the Driver tab in the presented dialog box Click the Start button If you donot see a Meteor I device under Matrox Imaging Adapters you will have to reinstall the driver If the above solution for your operating system does not work try the following o Thedriver also might not start due to too much or insufficient allocation of DMA memory To address the problem of DMA memory uninstall and reinstall MIL and specify the correct DMA setting Thereisa conflict in the BIOS Setup program This problem generally occurs when thereis a PCI memory mapping error or when there is a PCI IRQ routing error Toresolvethis problem with the PCI form factor first try to swap boards from one PCI slot to another for the PC 104 Plus changethe rotary switch settings If the problem still persists upgrade your BIOS 78 Appendix A Troubleshooting If the above solution does not work try the following to determine if there is an IRQ conflict o Under Windows NT go to Windows NT Diagnostics property sheet found under Start Programs Administrative Tools Common Un
41. buffer 121 Color space A color space is a way of representing and describing the complete range of perceived colors A number of color spaces have been developed Common color spaces are RGB and HSL Both describe the same range of perceivable colors Composite sync A synchronization signal made up of two components one horizontal and one vertical Contiguous memory A block of memory occupying a single consecutive series of locations DCF Digitizer Configuration Format A DCF defines the input data format and among other things how to accept or generate video timing signals such as horizontal sync vertical sync and pixel dock Display memory See frame buffer A software program that tells an operating system how touse a hardware device Ethernet cable A wire similar to a telephone cable that carries the signals between Ethernet devices Exposure time Refers tothe period during which the image sensor of a camera is exposed to light As the length of this period increases so does the image brightness Field One of thetwo halves that make up an image One half consists of the image s odd lines known as theodd field the other half consists of the image s even lines known as the even fidd 122 Appendix G Glossary Frame A single image grabbed from a video camera Frame buffer A frame buffer is a dedicated storage area often used for data transfers between devices of differing speeds For exa
42. cameras where the channels can be selected with the MIL Lite MdigChannel command Low pass filter Theinput low pass filtering stage is used to limit high frequency noise and aliasing effects at the input of the triple A D converter The filter used on Matrox M eteor l I Multi Channel is a 4th order Butterworth filter with a cutoff frequency of 10 MHz Gain Matrox M eteor Il Multi Channel has adjustable gains This allows you to optimize the video input signal range 60 You can change the gain value using the MIL Lite Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference M digControl command The supported gain factors are as follows Input video signal Total inputvideo Required MIL amplitude signal amplitude gain excluding sync including sync setting 0 0 V up to0 5V 0 0 0 7 Vpp 4 M GAIN3 0 5 V upto0 7V 0 7 1 0 Vpp 2 8 default M GAIN2 0 7 V upto 1 0 V 1 0 1 4 Vpp 2 M GAIN1 1 0V upto1 5V 1 4 2 1 Vpp 1 3 M GAINO 1 5 V upto2 0 V 2 1 2 9 Vpp 1 M_GAIN4 Tiple A D converter A triple A D converter with external reference generation and sync slicing is used for component RGB digitization The converter can be operated at up to 30 MSPS In addition the converter s black and white reference levels can be adjusted individually The black and white reference levels can be adjusted between 0 6 V to 1 6 V and 1 6 V to 2 6 V respectively in increments of 10 23 mV 98 distinct adjustm
43. ctor for direct trigger input in TTL or opto isolated format m RS 232 input connector Used as a standard RS 232 serial port interface m VMChannel Used to send data to another Matrox board VMChannel RS 232 Trigger input Video input Connecting a video input to Meteor Il Digital Connect video sources to Matrox Meteor I 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 Il Digital to other boards The VM Channel interface allows the transfer of data to other Matrox boards Insert a VM Channel backplane available with interconnect kits across the VM Channel interface to connect the boards Notethat when connecting multiple M atrox boards at least one of the boards you are connecting must be bus controller capable Matrox M eteor 11 is not bus controller capable 42 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Matrox Meteor I 1394 has four connectors which are indicated in the diagram below Three of these connectors are located on its bracket and are discussed in detail in Appendix E supply input IE Auxiliary power Tr miu gt gt PCI connector m 1394 ports Used to provide bi directional serial communication and power E ach 1 O port features a standard 6 pin connector S
44. d eee amp PSG VIA ER Receivers SGRAM 4 Mbytes RS 232 Drivers and 32 Receivers Not available on PCH O4 Plus i D Host 32 bit PCI bus RS 422 version of these signals are available on the optional RS 422 connector This connector is only available on Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel in a PCI form factor Acquisition features Matrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel can acquiredifferent types of standard and non standard monochrome and component RGB video The board features six software selectable input channels on which two component RGB or six monochrome cameras can be attached Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel supports acquisition from one camera at atimeor simultaneous acquisition from up to three gen l ocked RS 170 CCI R cameras Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel supports both single and 100 Pin Connector 9 Pin Female Trigger Connector 9 Pin Male RS 232 Connector Data Clk input CIk output Hsync input Hsync output Vsync input Vsync output Valid frames line Trigger Exposure timer1 Exposure timer2 Aux 1 input Aux 2 input Aux 1 output Aux 2 output Exposure timer1 Exposure timer2 Camera CTRL1 Camera CTRL2 Camera CTRL3 Trigger Trigger RX TX RTS CTS On separate bracket Matrox Meteor Il is available with either RS 422 or LVDS support Matrox Meteor Il boards 13 dual tap configurations It also accepts an external trigger and can operate in either asynchronous res
45. de for operation 3000 meters m Max altitude for transport 12000 meters m Operating humidity 20 8096 relati ve humidity non condensing Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Mullti Channel This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel board 94 Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel Technical information This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor II Multi Channel board Global information m Operating system See your software manual for supported versions of Windows m System requirements A computer with a PCI bus and a Pentium processor or equivalent Some older systems use a core logic chipset interfaces PCI with Host memory that has limited throughput capabilities Matrox Meteor Il might not be able to attain full functionality on such systems We recommend systems with newer PCI chipsets such as the I ntel 430H X 430V X 430TX 440F X 440L X or 440BX If you need more specific information regarding potential problems refer to Appendix A Troubleshooting Technical features o Features six software selectable channels which support six monochrome or two component RGB videoinputs Any of these channels can serve as the sync channel however there is also a separate sync channel n Supports both single and dual tap channel monochrome
46. der the Resources tab check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber n Under Windows 98 right click on My Computer and select Computer from the presented menu Go to View Resources selecting the Interrupt request IRQ checkbox Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber n Under Windows 2000 right dick on My Computer and select Manage from the presented menu Select Computer in the Computer Management dialog box Select System Information Hardware Resources IRQ Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber Not enough memory to allocate buffer under Windows NT 4 0 This is the message that you will receive if you try to allocate a grab buffer that is greater than the amount of DMA memory specified during software installation This problem can be addressed by increasing the amount of DM A memory on your computer Uninstall and reinstall MIL and specify the appropriate amount of DMA memory Alternatively re allocate DMA memory using the included milconfig exe utility Grabbing Problems Opto isolated trigger pulse is not connected When using the opto isolated trigger both OPTOTRIG and OPTOTRIG signals must be connected OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source Common problems and solutions 79 IRQ conflicts In general PCI devices can share an interrupt line IRQ However sometimes this might not b
47. dule cannot be stacked m f you cannot stack your PC 104 Plus module check the connectors of the board in the stack and determine if any of the PCI connector s holes are filled If this is the case cut the corresponding pins on your board Seethesection I nstalling Matrox Meteor I for PC 104 Plus in Chapter 2 m f your computer has PC 104 modules you must re stack them so the PC 104 modules are on top of PC 104 Plus modules Be sureto reset the rotary switches for your new stack configuration Board service fails to start This could happen due to the following two reasons m TheMIL Matrox Meteor I drivers are not installed correctly n When the board fails to start under Windows NT your computer will prompt you to gotothe E vent Viewer utility toidentify the device that was unableto start Click the Devicesicon in the Control Panel n the Devices dialog box find your Matrox frame grabber in the presented list Common problems and solutions 77 If the Startup column reads Automatic and the Status column is blank the driver can be started by clicking the Start button n When theboard fails to start under Windows 98 the driver is probably not installed Check for a Meteor I device in the Windows Device Manager property sheet This sheet can be accessed using the System utility in the Control Panel f you do not see a Meteor I device under Matrox Imaging Adapters you will have to reinstall the driver a When the
48. e connector in Appendix B Auxiliary power supply input For pinout information see Auxiliary power supply input in Appendix B Auxiliary power supply selection For information see Auxiliary power supply selection in Appendix B 100 Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel Specifications Electrical Form Factor Operating Voltage and current Power Consumption 5 V 45 5 V 45 3 3 V 259612 V 10 12 V 10 PCI LOA n a n a 150mA 75 mA 7 7 W PC 104 Plus 140mA 60mA 103A 15 mA n a 5 08 W a This number represents the total power consumption of the Matrox Meteor II board only It does not include the power consumption of an Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module or of a camera which draws current through the auxiliary power supply input Environmental m Min max ambient operating temperature 0 C 55 C um Min max storage temperature 40 C 75 C m Max altitude for operation 3000 meters m Max altitude for transport 12000 meters m Operating humidity 20 8096 relative humidity non condensing Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor Il Digital board 102 Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital Technical information This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matr
49. e possible for example complex PCI devices or bus master devices should not share an IRQ Thetypes of difficulties that you might run into are as follows m IRQ conflict under Windows NT 4 0 Intheevent that your M atrox imaging board s cannot share an IRQ line with other devices allocate a different IRQ to each device in the IRQ Configuration Setup section of the BIOS Setup Program if possible accessible on bootup IRQ conflict under Windows 98 Toresolve this problem with the PCI and CompactPCI form factors either re assign a different IRQ line to the PCI slot in which the Matrox Meteor I board is installed or change the resource settings in the Windows Device Manager property page This page can be accessed using the System utility in the Control Panel To resolve this problem with the PC 104 Plus form factor change the rotary switch settings Notethat PCI devices cannot shareinterrupt lines with EISA or ISA devices Other possible solutions to the above problems a Move the Matrox M eteor I board to another free PCI slot a Swap Matrox Meteor I with another board Problems during application development Computer hangs or produces unwanted results while an application is running Sometimes an EISA or ISA device might attempt to use the same interrupt registers or memory space as PCI boards and this causes a conflict Check for an interrupt memory or register conflict 80 Appendix A Troublesh
50. eatures 4 MBytes of SGRAM a Features Strap selectable 5 or 12 V DC output PCI form factor onl y Board input and output connectors 83 n Features an RS 232 port n Features 32 bit bus controller VM Channel interface Board inputand output connectors PCI form factor Matrox M eteor 11 Standard PCI form factor has six interface connectors a VM Channel an auxiliary power supply input a video input two connectors for an expansion module and a BNC connector VMChannel Auxiliary power supply input Connector 1 male for Video input expansion module Connector 2 female for BNC expansion module 1 Revisions 0 and 1 of the Matrox Meteor II Standard board do not have an expansion site and therefore do not have these con nectors 84 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard Matrox M eteor I Standard CompactPCI form factor has five interface connectors a video input a BNC two connectors for an expansion module and a CompactPCI connector CompactPCl form factor Connector 2 female for expansion module CompactPCI connector LG Video input BNC Connector 1 male for f expansion module M atrox M eteor I for the PC 104 Plus form factor stand alone version has five interface connectors a video input two connectors for the expansion module a PC 104 P lus PCI and a PC 104 ISA connector PC 104 Plus form factor
51. ee Appendix E for pinouts a Auxiliary power supply input Used to route power from your computer through the Matrox Meteor I 1394 board to your camera Connecting a device to Meteor Il 1394 Connect devices to M atrox M eteor 1 1394 s ports using the 6 pin connectors The cable for the Meteor I 1394 is not available from Matrox but 1394 devices such as cameras typically include a cable See Appendix E for the pinouts signals and mating connector supplier Connecting external devices 43 Connecting Matrox Meteor ll 1394 to the auxiliary power supply input To use Matrox Meteor l 1394 to power your device 1 Usethe 4 pin power cable to connect the auxiliary power supply connector to the power supply in the computer 2 Connect your camera s 1394 cabletooneof theboard s ports Note that the total current drawn by all the cameras is limited to 1 5 A 44 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Chapter 3 Installing software This chapter explains how to install the Matrox Meteor Il software 46 Chapter 3 Installing software Installing the software To install any Matrox imaging software place its CD in the appropriate drive the setup exe file will run automatically Whileinstalling the software you will be asked to provide the following information m Thedrive and directory in which to install the software m Thetarget operating system and compiler m Thetype of Matrox hardware that is installed in y
52. el 11 Matrox Meteor II Digital 13 Matrox Meteor II 1394 14 Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module 15 Data transfer 16 Software llle eee 16 What you need to get started 18 Inspecting the Matrox Meteor II package 19 Standard package llle 19 Optional items 19 Handling components 20 Installation overview 21 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Installing Matrox Meteor II 24 Installing Matrox Meteor II for PCI 24 Installing Matrox Meteor II for CompactPCI i opero fare Rare ce aa 27 Installing Matrox Meteor II for PC 104 Plus llle 29 Installing the Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module lees 31 Connecting external devices 33 Matrox Meteor II Standard for PCI 33 Matrox Meteor II Standard for Matrox Meteor II Multi Channel for PCI 37 Matrox Meteor II Standard and Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus 39 Matrox Meteor II Digital 40 Matrox Meteor II 1394 42 Chapter 3 Installing software Installing the software 4 46 Note about Matrox Intelliicam 46 47 Chapter 4 Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards Using multiple Matrox Meteor II boards 48 Multiple board installation 48 Grabbing simultaneously from diff
53. el or PCI buses TheVIA is capable of plane separation of image input on two three or four 8 bit or 16 bit components for example RGB packed to RGB planar This mechanism is also used to merge line segments of monochrome multi tap cameras PCI interface Matrox M eteor I has a 32 bit PCI bus interface capable of a peak transfer rate of 132 M bytes sec TheVIA s PCI interface is 32 bits wide and operates at 33 MHz It allows all VIA resources to be accessed through a 128 M byte memory region mappable anywhere in the 4 Gbyte PCI address space n addition the PCI interface support various plane and pixel transfer modes by using some of the VM Channel logic Consequently VM Channel and PCI transfers cannot be performed si multaneously Read pre fetch and write posting buffers are integrated to optimize H ost access Matrox Meteor Il MJPEG Module 71 VMChannel Matrox M eteor I provides a 32 bit non bus controller VMChannel interfacefor a secondary or additional high speed connection between on board and external devices On a 68 wire ribbon cable system the VM Channel runs at 25 MHz for 100 M bytes sec peak transfer rates On a backplane system it runs at 33 MHz for 132 Mbytes sec peak transfer rates TheVM Channel is only available on the PCI form factor of Matrox M eteor 11 Standard Multi Channel and Digital Matrox Meteor Il Mj PEG Module The optional Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module performs real time loss
54. ely communicate with a program logic controller PLC TheUART is programmed using the MIL Lite command MdigControl with the M UART control types Tigger Matrox M eteor I Standard accepts an external trigger input which allows image acquisition to be synchronized to external events Thetrigger issynchronoustotheincoming videostream anditis received through an opto coupler that helpsisolatethe rest of the circuitry from surges Matrox Meteor 11 Standard operates in next valid frame field mode When in this mode the digitizer waits for the next valid frame or field as specified by the DCF file before commencing the grab This trigger mode functions in one of three ways m Edge triggered monoshot acquisition The VIA Video nterface Asic waits for the rising falling edge to capturea single frame Edge triggered continuous acquisition The VIA waits for the rising falling edge to start a continous grab m Level sensitive continuous acquisition The VI A grabs continuously while the level of the trigger is high low The polarity of the active and inactive levels of thetrigger signal are software programmable Matrox Meteor Il Standard grab section 57 Trigger signals connected tothe OPTOTRIG andOPTOTRIG input pins pass through an opto coupler a device that protects the board from outside surges OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source The voltage difference across OPTOTRIG and OPTOTR
55. ents Use the MIL Lite MdigReference command to set the black and white reference levels PSG The Programmable Synchronization Generator PSG is responsible for managing all timing and synchronization signals Phase locked loop The high performance low jitter phase locked loop PLL uses frequency synthesis techniques to generate the clock signal when necessary The PLL can use the following sources as a reference Slave mode Master mode Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel grab section 61 The on board crystal oscillator The horizontal video synchronization signal supplied by the video source line locked mode When in line locked mode and accepting a composite video signal the PLL can synchronize to either serrated or block vertical synchronization signals The clock signal supplied by the video source to generate a different clock When the input source supplies a sampling clock that does not require adjustment the PLL is bypassed to avoid adding jitter to the supplied clock General synchronization Matrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel can operate in either slave or master mode In slave mode the video source provides the synchronization information to M atrox Meteor II Multi Channel It can accept one of the following synchronization schemes a The video source encodes the synchronization signals on the analog video signal provided to the board a The video source supplies the horizon
56. erent boOards sia faida paia d e E 50 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference Matrox Meteor II hardware reference 54 Matrox Meteor II Standard grab section 54 Input channels cess 55 Low pass filter 55 Video decoder one Lo LEES 55 UART irta OR AE ER 56 Trigger Sh he Sg ee teu Re 56 User bits 24x23 Ria ees 57 Using the auxiliary power supply 57 i59 Matrox Meteor II Multi Channel grab section 58 Input channels 59 Low pass filter l l eee 59 Galli soe aides id vives syl Oe to Oe Do des 59 Triple A D converter 60 PSG eig d URL Mined Hang aa a a EN 60 Phase lockedloop less 60 General synchronization 61 JTTISSeL i sete 62 WARD eri uu ee Wee ue ue ees 63 Lookup table LUT 63 USER DIS s eR es 63 Using the auxiliary power supply 64 Matrox Meteor II Digital grab section 64 WART czone big bate be VE 66 Lookup table LUT 66 PSG 455 b be bebes 66 Control signals 66 Matrox Meteor II 1394 68 Data interfaces 0 02 0000 70 Video Interface ASIC 4 70 PCI interlace in ioi dei us EA 70 VMChannel geo TE EP adhe EEE gy 71 Matrox Meteor II MJPEG Module 71 Appendix A Troubleshooting Troubleshooting eee 76 Common problems and solutions 76 Installa
57. et mode or next valid frame field mode The PCI form factor also includes an auxiliary power supply input which can be used to draw auxiliary power from your computer to provide power to your camera Matrox Meteor Il Digital Matrox M eteor Il Digital is a digital frame grabber for standard and non standard video acquisition This board is only available in a PCI form factor RS 422 32 LUT LVDS 4 256x8 bit Receiver or 2 4Kx16 bit RS 422 LVDS Drivers amp Receivers TTL PSG gt Buffers Opto coupler mm j RS 232 Drivers and gt UART Receivers 32 VMChannel VIA 64 SGRAM bs 4 MB Host 32 bit PCI bus 14 Chapter I Introduction Acquisition features 6 pin IEEE 1394 Physical 3 3V regulator Connector Layer 6 pin IEEE 1394 Connector 6 pin IEEE 1394 12V Connector input Acquisition features Matrox Meteor I Digital can acquire digital video from standard and non standard cameras using the RS 422 or LVDS differential signed format It supports image acquisition from genlocked cameras in 4 x 8 bit 2 x 16 bit or 1 x 32 bit configurations therefore up to four cameras can be attached to acquire four 8 bit or component RGB images The board also supports multi tap grabs up to four taps In addition M atrox Meteor I Digital accepts an
58. ethe board towards the connector at the back Subrack ges CompactPCI Board pem Guide slots 28 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Back plate of subrack CompactPCI connector d d Handle 4 Press the board firmly but carefully into the connector When the boardisin place thehandle opens automatically exposing a screw Tighten both this screw and the one at the top of the bracket 6 Connect your video sources For details seethe Connecting external devices section 7 Turn on your computer Under Windows 98 when you boot your computer Windows Plug and Play system will detect a new PCI card and you will be asked to assign a driver toit At this point you should click on Cancel because the driver will be installed during the installation of MIL or one of its derivatives Installing Matrox Meteor ll for PC 104 Plus Installing Matrox Meteor Il 29 Use the following steps to install your Matrox M eteor 11 board for PC 104 Plus 1 Matrox Meteor Il for PC 104 Plus can operate in either a 5V or 3 3V system n some cases a holein the PC 104 Plus PCI connector is filled which prevents another PC 104 Plus module from being stacked on top To install Matrox Meteor I for PC 104 Plus in a system with a specific signalling environment a pin must be removed Thetableand diagram below indicatewhich pinstocut and their locations on the connector
59. f the following steps 1 Complete the hardware installation as described in Chapter 2 If you have any problems refer to Appendix A 2 Complete the software installation as described in Chapter 3 For information on using multiple Matrox Meteor 11 boards refer to Chapter 4 and for in depth hardwareinformation refer to Chapter 5 If you want technical information about M atrox M eteor ll including specifications and connector descriptions and pinouts see Appendix B for Matrox M eteor Il Standard Appendix C for Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel Appendix D for Matrox Meteor Il Digital and Appendix E for Matrox Meteor ll 1394 A history of the development of Matrox Meteor Il is available in Appendix F When the term Matrox M eor I boards is used it refers to all versions of the board When the term Meteor 11 for PC 104 Plus is used it refers to the stand alone version MET2 4 or MET2 M C 474 Another version of Matrox Meteor Il is available pre installed with Matrox 4Sight and technical information for this board is available in the Matrox 4Sight User Guide When the term Host is used in this manual it refers to your computer This manual occasionally makes reference to a MIL Lite command However anything that can be accomplished with MIL Lite can also be accomplished with MIL ActiveMIL ActiveMIL Lite or Matrox Inspector 1 Most items can be accomplished with Matrox Inspector 22 Chapler I Int
60. g a video inputto Meteor ll Standard forPCI orCompactPCl You can connect video sources to M atrox M eteor I Standard s videoinput connector using the optional DBHD44 TO 13BNC cable This cable has thirteen BNC connectors and a 44 pin high density D Subminiature plug The wires of the cable are color coded as follows Connect your cameras accordingly Wires Signals Expected Input Form factor RED 1 VID IN1 Analog Video nput1 or Y 1 PCI CompactPCI GREEN 2 VID IN2 Analog Video nput2 or C1 PCI CompactPCI BLUE 3 VID IN3 Analog Video I nput3 or Y2 PCI CompactPCI BLACK 4 VID IN4 Analog Video I nput4 or C2 PCI CompactPCI WHITE 5 VID IN5 Analog Video nput5 or C4 PCI CompactPCl YELLOW 6 VID_IN6 Analog Video I nput6 or Y3 PCI CompactPCl PURPLE 7 VID IN7 Analog Video I nput7 or C3 PCI CompactPCI Connecting external devices 35 Wires Signals Expected Input Form factor BROWN 8 VID IN8 Analog Video I nput8 or Y 4 PCI LIGHT BLUE 9 VID IN9 Analog Video I nput9 or Y5 PCI ORANGE 10 VID IN10 Analog Videolnput10 or C5 PCI PINK 11 VID_IN11 Analog Video Inputllor Y6 PCI LIGHT GREEN 12 VID IN12 Analog Video Input12 or C6 PCI GRAY 13 OPTOTRIG External trigger input PCI CompactPCl OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source Connect the supplied BNC TO SVHS adaptor cables to the DBHD44 TO 13BNC cable for Y C input The PCI form fac
61. gthe Matrox Meteor Il Digital board continue with the following steps 26 Chapter 2 Hardware installation m f present remove the blank metal plate located at the back of a slot next tothe Matrox Meteor Il Digital board do not discard this screw m Install the bracket with thetrigger and RS 232 input connectors and fasten it with the screw you just removed m Connect the cables to the 4 pin trigger connector and the 10 pin RS 232 connector on the M atrox M eteor 1l Digital board see figure below 9 Replacethe cover of your computer 10 Connect your video sources For details seethe Connecting external devices section 11 Turn on your computer Under Windows 98 when you boot your computer Windows Plug and Play system will detect a new PCI card and you will be asked to assign a driver toit At this point you should click on Cancel because the driver will be installed during the installation of MIL or one of its derivatives Installing Matrox Meteor Il 27 Installing Matrox Meteor Il for CompactPCI Use the following steps to install your Matrox M eteor I board for CompactPCI 3U Note that a 6U replacement bracket is available 1 Remove a plate on the subrack exposing an empty slot 2 Connect the Matrox Meteor I MJ PEG moduletothe board if required See the section Installing the M atrox M amp eor l MJ PEG module 3 Carefully position Matrox Meteor I along one of the guide rails and slid
62. hapter 4 Ae a Cy PC 104 ISA connector _ Rotary PC 104 Plus CE I A w switch PCI connector i A gg 28582885853 al Y i I I i y x Expansion module connectors Video input Motherboard connector Ss S ie 3 NEC c st uni 9 Connect your video sources For details seethe Connecting external devices section PCI and CompactPCI form factors Installing the Matrox Meteor Il MJPEG module 31 10 Turn on your computer Under Windows 98 when you boot your computer Windows Plug and Play system will detect a new PCI card and you will be asked toassign a driver toit At this point you should click on Cancel because the driver will be installed during the installation of MIL or one of its derivati ves Installing the Matrox Meteor Il MJ PEG module Matrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module is available in two form factors onefor usewith PCI and CompactPCI form factors and one for use with the PC 104 Plus form factor The module is supported on Matrox M eteor I Standard and Multi Channel 1 Position the boards such that the male connector on the module is aligned with the female connector on the base board and the female connector on the module is aligned with the male connector of the base board MJPEG module Meteor ll board 32 Chapter 2 Hardware installation 2 Oncethe boards are perfectly aligned press the module firmly b
63. ideo input connector on the PCI form factor The video input connector is a high density DB 44 female connector on the PCI form factor Its pinout is as follows Pin Signal Description 15 VIDI INI1 RED Analog Video Input Channel 1 44 VIDI IN2 GREEN Analog Video Input Channel 1 13 VIDI IN3 BLUE Analog Video Input Channel 1 43 SYNC IN Analog Video Input SYNC 11 VID2_IN1 RED Analog Video Input Channel 2 41 VID2_IN2 GREEN Analog Video Input Channel 2 40 VID2_IN3 BLUE Analog Video Input Channel 2 35 OPTOTRIG Opto Isolated trigger positive input 34 OPTOTRIG Opto Isolated trigger negative input 20 TRIGGER Non Protected TTL trigger input 19 CLK_IN_TTL Clock input TTL 33 CLK_OUT_TTL Clock output TTL 32 VSYNC_TTL Vsync input or output TTL Board input and output connectors 97 Pin Signal Description 2 HSYNC TIL Hsync input or output TTL 38 EXP 1 Exposure 1 output TTL 23 EXP 2 Exposure 2 output TTL 36 TX Transmit RS 232 22 RX Receive RS 232 6 CTS CTS RS 232 21 RTS RTS RS 232 39 USERIIN Auxiliary User Input 1 positive 12 USERIIN Auxiliary User Input 1 negative 9 USER2IN Auxiliary User Input 2 positive 10 USER2IN Auxiliary User Input 2 negative 24 USERIOUT Auxiliary User Output 1 TTL 8 USER2OUT Auxiliary User Output 2 TTL 1 1
64. ion m PC 104 I SA connectors Two interface connectors to send data across the SA bus m Expansion module interface Three connectors used to attach to the optional Matrox Meteor I MJ PEG module for image compression and decompression located on the soldered side of the board PC 104 Plus PC PC 104 s ISA Expansion module connectors Video input connector Connecting a video input to Matrox Meteor Il for PC 104 Plus Connect video sources to Matrox Meteor I Standard or Multi Channel through their video input connector a 30 pin right angle male connector A standard cable for PC 104 Plus form factor boards is not available from M atrox You can use the included mating connector crimp the ribbon cabletoit and attach your required connector to the other end of the ribbon cable Then connect this custom cableto the video input connector See Appendices B and C for the pinouts signals and ribbon cableinformation for the Standard and Multi Channel respectively Matrox Meteor Il Digital Matrox Meteor I Digital has four connectors which are indicated in the diagram below Only one of these connectors is located on its bracket All these connectors listed below are discussed in detail in Appendix D Connecting external devices 41 Digital Video input Used to receive digital video as well as send and receive synchronization signals Trigger input A conne
65. lized terms used in this Matrox Meteor Il document 120 Appendix G Glossary ASIC Application specific integrated circuit An integrated circuit custom made to meet the requirements of a specific application It integrates several digital and or analog functions intoa single die This results in a reduction in cost board area and power consumption while improving performance when compared to an equivalent implementation using off the shelf components Backplane A circuit board that acts as a pathway between multiple boards For example if a backplane is inserted between the VMChannels of two Meteor 11 boards the boards can share data through their VM Channel Band One of the surfaces of a buffer A grayscale image requires just one band A color image requires three bands one for each color component Bandwidth A term describing the capacity to transfer data Greater bandwidth is needed to sustain a higher transfer rate Greater bandwidth can be achieved for example by using a wider bus Bit A digit of a binary number mages are described as 1 bit 8 bit 16 bit etc The numbers indicate the bits available to store the value of each pixel in the image Bus A pathway along which signals are sent generally in two directions for communication of data Color component One of the components that make up a color space Typically each component of a color imageis stored in a separate band of a multi band
66. mple since a computer sends out data faster than a screen can display it the data is temporarily stored in the frame buffer The buffer is generally thought of as a two dimensional surface with a certain pixel depth Grab To acquire an image from a camera Horizontal sync Thepart of a video signal that indicates the end of a lineand the start of a new one See also vertical sync HSL A color spacethat represents color using components of hue saturation and luminance The hue component describes the actual color of a pixel The saturation component describes the concentration of that color The luminance component describes the combined brightness of the primary colors Host In general Host refers to the principal CPU in one s computer Interlaced scanning Describes atransfer of data in which the odd numbered lines of the source are written to the destination buffer first and then the even numbered lines or vice versa See also progressive scanning Latency Thetime from when an operation is started to when the final result is produced 123 Live processing See real ti me processing LUT mapping Look up table mapping A point to point operation that uses a table to define a replacement value for each possible pixel value in an image LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signaling It is a way to communicate data using a very low voltage swing about 350mV over two differential printed circuit board PCB trace
67. nctional change 885 00 rev C No functional change 885 0001 rev A Support for KS0127 rev B video decoder 885 01 rev A Replaced expansion connectors for 896 01 Matrox Meteor Il boards 117 Board Version Description M atrox Meteor I 886 00 rev A Original version Multi Channel PC 104 Plus 886 00 rev B No functional change 886 01 rev A Replaced expansion connectors for 896 01 Matrox Meteor Ill MJ PEG Module PCI and 774 00 rev A Original version Interlaced CompactP Cl compression only 774 01 rev A Nofunctional change 774 01 rev B Nofunctional change 913 00 rev A Supports interlaced and non interlaced compression Removed on board memory use backboard memory instead 913 00 rev B Nofunctional change PC 104 Plus 896 00 rev A Similar to 913 00 896 01 rev A Replaced interface connectors This revision is supported on Matrox Meteor I Standard revisions 885 00 rev A to 885 0001 rev A This revision is supported on Matrox M eteor l Multi Channel for revisions 886 00 rev A and 886 00 rev B This revision is supported on Matrox Meteor Il Standard for revisions 885 01 rev A and higher This revision is supported on Matrox M eteor l Multi Channel for revisions 886 01 rev A and higher 118 Appendix F Listing of Matrox Meteor Il Boards Appendix G Glossary This appendix defines some of the specia
68. nical information 102 Global information 102 Board input and output connectors 103 Digital interface connector 104 RS 232 input connector 106 Trigger input connector 106 VMChannel interface connector 107 Specifications LL 108 Electrical 4 ids viene 108 Appendix E Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 1394 llli essen Technical information 110 Global information 110 Board input and output connectors 111 IEEE 1394 ports L aa 111 Auxiliary power supply input 112 References iue ine UR RS 112 Specifications LL 113 Electrical ae RR 113 Environmental 113 Appendix F Listing of Matrox Mefteor Il Boards Matrox Meteor II boards 116 Appendix G Glossary llle Index Customer Support Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter outlines the key features of Matrox Meteor Il boards 10 Chapter 1 Introduction BNC Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors To DB 44 Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors VID IN1 VID IN2 VID IN3 VID INA VID_IN5 VID ING To 30 pin male Jp IE connector for IONS PC 104 Plus VID IN14 form factor VID IN12 Not available on CompactPCI form factor Not available on PC 104 Plus form factor
69. ooting m Under Windows NT goto Windows NT Diagnostics property sheet found under Start Programs Administrative Tools Common Under the Resources tab check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber m Under Windows 98 right click on My Computer and select Computer from the presented menu Go to View Resources selecting the I nterrupt request IRQ checkbox Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber m Under Windows 2000 right dick on My Computer and select Manage from the presented menu Select Computer in the Computer M anagement dialog box Select System Information Hardware Resources IRQ Check for devices that are sharing an IRQ with your Matrox frame grabber Contacting Matrox Before contacting your local Matrox representative M atrox Sales Office or the Matrox I maging Customer Support Group you will need the following information m A description of what happened m Computer motherboard make and model number environment and peripherals especially boards sharingthe computer with your Matrox M eteor I I m Your board s serial number printed on the bar code label and revision number Usethe Product Assistance Request F orm at the back of this manual to record the necessary information Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor
70. or CCI R 601 resolutions The PCI and PC 104 Plus form factors feature twelve software selectable input channels to switch between six Y C or twelve composite video sources The CompactPCI form factor features seven inputs to switch between three Y C or seven composite video sources Matrox Meteor II Standard accepts an external trigger input and can operate in next valid frame field mode The PCI form factor alsoincludes an auxiliary power supply input which can beusedto draw auxiliary power from your computer to provide power to your camera Matrox Meteor Il Multi C hannel Matrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel is a monochrome and component RGB analog frame grabber for standard and non standard video acquisition M atrox M eteor I I Multi Channel isavailablein a PCI or PC 104 Plusformfactor both of which can use a Matrox Meteor I1l MJ PEG module for compression and decompression of monochrome and color images 12 Chapter I Introduction To DB 44 Connector for PCI form factor To 30 pin male connector for PC 104 Plus form factor VID IN1 1 VID IN1 2 VID IN2 1 VID IN2 2 VID IN3 1 VID IN3 2 SYNC IN Trigger Clk input Clk output Hsync Vsync Trigger Exposure timer1 Exposure timer2 Aux RX TX IRTS ICTS form factor VMChannel not available on CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus 3 256x8 bit MJPEG Module Opto coupler i optional TTL Drivers 1l medo x o i i
71. oup of PCI signals to the module in the stack clock request grant ID select and interrupt signals It is recommended that the first module installed the module closest to the Host CPU board be configured to 0 the second 1 and so on The table below shows the recommended switch setting for each module as well as the dedicated signals Switch Module Interrupt Request ID position position grant select Oor4 1 Interrupt A 0 0 lor5 2 Interrupt B 1 1 2 or 6 3 Interrupt C 2 2 30r7 4 Interrupt D 2 3 50 Chapter 4 Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards If you are installing an additional Matrox Meteor I board on Matrox 4Sight the module already installed has the setting fixed at 0 therefore the setting of the additional module must be at a setting other than O or 4 Grabbing simultaneously from different boards You can simultaneously grab images from cameras attached to different Matrox M eteor Il boards To grab at exactly the same time the cameras must be genlocked synchronized and their corresponding digitizer configuration formats must bethe same Note that this restriction does not apply to Matrox Meteor I 1394 The number of cameras from which you can simultaneously grab is determined by the PCI bandwidth available in your computer Matrox Meteor Il E Matr
72. our computer If you have an MGA board check the MGA control panel to ensure that you have the latest display driver installed If you do not have the latest install the display driver that is on the CD After installation read thereadmefile s recommended by the installation program Note about Matrox Intellic am MIL Lite uses digitizer configuration formats DCF s to configure the camera interface on Matrox digitizers The DCF defines among other things the videotiming signals and the video data format Matrox I ntellicam can be used to create or customize a DCF file if the supplied files do not include one that matches your video source Note that Matrox Meteor I I Standard and 1394 only accept standard input formats therefore you can only use the predefined DCF s For more information about Matrox I ntellicam refer to the Matrox Intellicam User Guide Chapter 4 Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards This chapter explains how to use multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards 48 Chapter 4 Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards Installing multiple PCI and CompactPCI cards Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards This section describes how to use multiple Matrox M eteor l 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 u
73. ox Meteor Il Grabbing from two genlocked cameras PCI bandwidth requirements Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Grabbing simultaneously from different boards 51 Matrox Meteor I Standard M ulti Channel and Digital have a low susceptibility to PCI bus latency due to 4 Mbytes of SGRAM In addition sustained PCI transfers to memory require the use of a high performance PCI core logic chipset such as thelntel 440L X or 440B X If a high performancechi pset is used with a Matrox Meteor I Standard or Multi Channel board you should not haveany PCI bandwidth problems when grabbing up to two full sized color images simultaneously using two boards H owever grabbing more than two images simultaneously might result in PCI bandwidth problems As a reference point grabbing one full sized NTSC or PAL image in real time will require a PCI bandwidth of 35 M bytes sec or 42 M bytes sec respectively when transferringin RGBX 32 bit mode With the Matrox Meteor I Digital board you can experience PCI bandwidth problems when grabbing from multiple cameras that require a high bandwidth When grabbing from three or more M atrox M eteor 11 boards simultaneously you will haveto reducethe image sizeto avoid reaching the upper limits of the overall available bandwidth Although M atrox M eteor 1 1394 supports simultaneous input from multiple cameras there are is
74. ox Meteor Il Digital board Global information m Operating system See your software manual for supported versions of Windows m System requirements A computer with a PCI bus anda Pentium processor or equivalent Some older systems use a core logic chipset interfaces PCI with Host memory that has limited throughput capabilities Matrox Meteor Il might not be able to attain full functionality on such systems We recommend systems with newer PCI chipsets such as the Intel 430H X 430V X 430TX 440F X 440L X or 440BX If you need more specific information regarding potential problems refer to Appendix A Troubleshooting m Technical features a Captures monochrome or component RGB frame scan and line scan sources a Available with a RS 422 or LVDS interface a Supports multi tap acquisition up to four 8 bit inputs or two 16 bit inputs a Accepts an external trigger input and can operate in next valid frame field mode or asynchronous reset mode a Features four 256 8 bit lookup tables that include three different configurations Four 8 bit LUTs Two 10 bit LUTs Two 12 bit LUTs 1 Matrox Meteor II Digital is not supported under Windows 98 Board input and output connectors 103 n Features 4 Mbytes of SGRAM n Features 32 bit bus controller VM Channel interface Board inputand output connectors Matrox Meteor I digital has four user connectors a VMChannel a trigger input a R
75. put connector on Matrox Meteor ll Sandard for PC 104 Plus The video input connector on the Meteor I Standard for PC 104 Plus is located on the top side of the board Its pinout 87 is as follows Pin Signal 1 0 Description 2 VID INI I Analog Video Input 1 or Y1 4 VID IN2 I Analog Video Input 2 or Cl 6 VID IN3 I Analog Video Input 3 or Y2 8 VID INA I Analog Video Input 4 or C2 10 VID IN5 I Analog Video Input 5 or C4 12 VID IN6 I Analog Video Input 6 or Y3 14 VID IN7 I Analog Video Input 7 or C3 15 USER 2 IN I Auxiliary User Input 2 16 USER 1 IN I Auxiliary User Input 1 17 USER 2 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 2 18 USER 1 OUT O Auxiliary User Output 1 20 VID_IN8 I Analog Video Input 8 or Y4 22 VID IN9 I Analog Video Input 9 or Y5 23 OPTOTRIG I Opto Isolated trigger negative input 24 OPTOTRIG I Opto Isolated trigger positive input 26 VID IN10 I Analog Video Input 10 or C5 28 VID IN11 I Analog Video Input 11 or Y6 30 VID IN12 I Analog Video Input 12 or C6 1 3 5 7 9 GND Ground 11 13 19 21 25 27 29 88 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Standard The mating connector included with the board is a 30 pin male 0 050 pitch right angle connector Parts for cables can be purchased from Manufacturer Fujitsu m Connector FCN 217 030 G O This connector interfaces with a ribbon cable 0 025 inch pitch 0
76. r 5 V or 12 V but the current drawn by all cameras is limited to 1 5 A The circuit uses an auto resettable fuse For further information on connecting to the auxiliary power supply connector see the section Connecting Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channe to the auxiliary power supply input in Chapter 2 and Appendix B Note that this input is not available on the CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus form factors Matrox Meteor Il Digital grab section The grab section of the Matrox Meteor I Digital board captures video from standard and non standard digital cameras It supports component RGB as well as monochrome acquisition in single or multi tap configurations Up to four genlocked cameras can be attached to acquire four 8 bit or two 16 bit inputs The board is available in two versions to support either the RS 422 or the LVDS interface but is available for the PCI form factor only Matrox Meteor Il Digital grab section VMChannel 32 RS 422 32 LUT 39 LVDS i 4 256x8 bit Receiver or 2 4Kx16 bit Data 65 100 Pin Connector 9 Pin Female Trigger Connector 9 Pin Male RS 232 Connector Clk input Clk output Hsync input Hsync output Vsync input Vsync output Valid frames line Trigger Exposure timer1 Exposure timer2 Aux 1 input Aux 2 input Aux 1 output Aux 2 output Exposure timer1 Exposure timer2 Camera CTRL1 Camera CTRL2 Camera CTRL3 Trigger Trigger RX TX RTS CTS
77. r Il 1394 board 110 Appendix E Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 1394 Technical information This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor II 1394 Global information m Operating systems See your software manual for supported versions of Windows m System requirements A computer with a PCI bus and a Pentium processor or equivalent Some older systems use a core logic chipset interfaces PCI with Host memory that has limited throughput capabilities Matrox Meteor 11 1394 might not be able to attain full functionality on such systems We recommend systems with newer PCI chipsets such as the Intel 430H X 430V X 430TX 440F X 440L X or 440BX If you need more specific information regarding potential problems refer to Appendix A Troubleshooting m Technical features network protect electronic equipment n Supports up to 62 peripheral devices in a serial bus n Compliant with IEEE and OHCI specifications a Supports data transfer rates of up to 400 M bits per second n Optional galvanicisolation barrier toprevent data loss and Board input and output connectors 111 Board inputand output connectors Matrox M eteor I 1394 has four interface connectors three 1394 ports and an auxiliary power supply input Auxiliary power supply input IEEE 1394 ports Each IEEE 1394 port is a 6 pin connector Its pinout is as follows
78. rdered M atrox Meteor I1 you should receive the following items m The Matrox Meteor I Standard Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel Matrox Meteor 11 Digital or Matrox Meteor I 1394 board m The Matrox Meteor I Installation and Hardware Reference manual this document A 4 pin power cable included with Matrox M eteor l Standard and Multi Channel PCI form factor and with Matrox Meteor l 1394 A bracket with flat cables that attach to the trigger and RS 232 input connectors included with Matrox Meteor I Digital m A 30 pin connector to interface with the video input connector included with M atrox Meteor I Standard and Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus stand alone version Optional items You might have also ordered one or more of the following m MIL 32 CD which includes ActiveMIL MIL LITE 32 CD which includes ActiveMIL Lite or Matrox INSPECTOR 32 CD MIL and MIL Lite CDs include Intellicam a Matrox Meteor 1 MJ PEG module 20 Chapter 1 Introduction A Caution a DBHD44 TO 13BNC input cable with a high density 44 pin connector and thirteen BNC connectors for the Matrox M eteor I Standard PCI and CompactPCI form factors Six BNC TO SVHS Y C adapter cables are shipped with the DBHD44 TO 13BNC cable a DH44 TO 13BNC O input cable with a high density 44 pin connector availablefor the M atrox M eteor I Standard This cableis required if you want to connect to special input and output sign
79. re programmed using the MIL Lite function M digControl Threetrigger inputs are routed directly to the PSG the interface supports TTL and RS 422 LVDS trigger input In addition a trigger signal connected to the OPTOTRIG and OPTOTRIG input pins passes through an opto coupler a devicethat protects theboard from outsidesurges OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of thetrigger source This external trigger input allows image acquisition to be synchronized with external events The board can operate in oneof two modes and theselected modeis specified by theDCF Matrox M eteor 11 Digital can operatein next valid frame field mode When in this mode the digitizer waits for the next valid frame or field as specified by the DCF file before commendng the grab This trigger mode functions in one of three ways m Edge triggered monoshot acquisition The VIA Video nterface Asic waits for therising falling edgeto capturea single frame Edge triggered continuous acquisition The VIA waits for the rising falling edge to start a continous grab Level sensitive continuous acquisition TheVIA grabs continuously while the level of the trigger is high low The polarity of the active and inactive levels of the trigger signal are software programmable Matrox M eteor Il Digital can also operate in asynchronous reset mode In this mode the digitizer resets the camera to begin a new frame when the trigger signal is received
80. ring decompression the 8 x 8 pixel blocks are reformatted intoraster format and in the caseof RGB data the Color Space Converter reconverts the compressed Y UV data intoRGB data JPEG Processor MJPEG FPGA Encoding MJPEG Encoding JPEG Matrox Meteor Il MJPEG Module 73 During compression the J PEG Processor receives the 8 x 8 pixel blocks and compresses them according the PEG standard Both lossy and lossless formats are supported During decompression the PEG Processor decompresses the data and transfers the 8 x 8 pixel blocks to the Color Space Converter The MJ PEG FPGA controls the direction of compressed and decompressed data and generates control signals on the module It implements a bus handshake with the VIA on the baseboard to access theSGRAM TheSGRAM on the baseboard is used to store the compressed data During MJ PEG interlaced compression the baseboard grabs a field of data This data enters the module through the Meteor Il grab port and passes through the Color Space Converter the PEG Processor and finally exits the module to the Host through the memory port on the MJ PEG FPGA chip Host During J PEG non interlaced compression the baseboard grabs an entire frame of data This data enters the module through the memory port on theMJ PEG FPGA chip and passes through the Color Space Converter From there J PEG compression follows the same path a
81. roduction Need help Appendix A offers solutions to potential problems If your Matrox Meteor I installation questions are not answered in this manual contact your local Matrox representative M atrox Sales Office or Matrox maging Customer Support Group see the Customer Support section at the back of this manual for telephone numbers In theunlikely event of a failure the warranty and Product Assistance Request F orm at the back of this manual outlines return conditions and procedures Chapter 2 Hardware installation This chapter explains how to install the Matrox Meteor Il hardware 24 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Installing Matrox Meteor ll Before you install your board some precautionary measures must be taken Turn off power to the computer and its peripherals and drain static electricity from your body by touching a metal part of the computer chassis Next follow the steps to install your board according to its form factor PCI CompactPCl or PC 104 Plus If you are not using Windows NT as your operating system your board must be installed before you install the software either MIL or one of its derivatives If you are adding another Matrox M eteor I to your computer you will have to re install your software after installing your board Installing Matrox Meteor Il for PCI Use the following steps to install your Matrox Meteor 11 board for PCI 1 Remove the cover from your compu
82. s MJ PEG compression Compressing an archived video stream is supported under J PEG compression Host 74 Chapter 5 Matrox Mefteor Il hardware reference Decoding During decompression the data enters through the memory port on the MJ PEG FPGA chip and passes through the PEG processor the Color Space Converter and finally exits through the Matrox Meteor I grab port l Host Dueto a hardware limitation the MJ PEG module on the Matrox Meteor I Standard cannot decompress J PEG non interlaced compressed data decompression of PEG data will be performed by the Host Appendix A Troubleshooting This appendix gives suggestions to help you resolve potential problems If your problem is not addressed here contact your local Matrox representative Matrox Sales Office or the Matrox Imaging Customer Support Group 76 Appendix A Troubleshooting Toubleshooting If you have problems using your M atrox M eteor l board please try the following m Check for disconnected power cords Read the Common problems and solutions section in this chapter If your problem is not addressed in this chapter or if the solutions suggested don t work for you contact your local Matrox representative M atrox Sales Office or the Matrox Imaging Customer Support Group Common problems and solutions Installation Problems PC 104 Plus mo
83. s or a balanced cable MSPS Mega Samples per second PCI Peripheral Component I nterconnect An expansion bus standard for the 90s PCI Primary Secondary Bus A high performance bus that provides a processor independent data path between the CPU and high speed peripherals PLC Programmable Logic Controller A device used to automate monitoring and control of industrial plants It can be used as a stand alone device or in conjunction with data acquisition Progressive scanning Describes a transfer of data in which the lines of the source input device are written sequentially into the destination buffer Also known as non interlaced See also interlaced scanning RAMDAC Random access memory digital to analog converter A digital to analog converter that includes static RAM for useas a look up table 124 Appendix G Glossary Real time processing The processing of an image as quickly as the next image is grabbed Also known as live processing Reference levels Thezero and full scale levels of an analog to digital converter Voltages below a black referencel evel areconverted to a zero pixel value voltages above a white reference levd areconverted tothe maxi mum pixel value Together with the analog gain factor the reference levels affect the brightness and contrast of the resulting image RGB A color space that represents color using the primary colors red green and blue as components Synchronous f
84. sage can affect the data transfer in computers using multiple boards Multiple board installation Install each additional Matrox Meteor I board PCI and CompactPCI form factors as you installed thefirst 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 M eteor l I 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 Multiple board installation 49 Installing multiple You can stack a maximum of four PC 104 Plus modules shown PC 104 Plus modules in the diagram below Notethat if you have PC 104 modules in your computer they must be placed at the top of the stack Top screw gt F 8 zi I Il ISA connectors a IT D I D C x PCI connector gt E IM Host board E I n addition you must set the rotary switch of each PC 104 Plus module to a unique setting in the stack Setting the rotary switch dedicates a gr
85. sing 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 Liteis a subset of MIL It includes all the MIL commands 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 ActiveMIL Inspector Intellicam Matrox Meteor ll boards 17 ActiveMIL is a set of ActiveX controls that are based on MIL ActiveMIL was designed for rapid application development RAD tools such as Microsoft s Visual Basic ActiveMIL is included with MIL ActiveMIL Liteis included with MIL Lite Inspector is an interactive Windows application for image capture processing analysis and archiving MIL Developers can use Matrox nspector as a prototyping tool to quickly build proof of concept demonstrations for their machine vision image analysis and medical imaging system End users can use Matrox Inspector to perform and automate image enhancement and measurement tasks Matrox Intellicam is an interactive Windows program that allows fast camera interfacing and provides interactive access toall theacquisition features of your M atrox board F or boards
86. sues with respect to both the PCI bus and the IEEE 1394 bus that restricts the actual number With respect to the PCI bus the available sustained bandwidth is a factor like other M atrox M eteor Il boards However Matrox Meteor l 1394 has a much smaller FIFO and is therefore more susceptible to long PCI bus latencies With respect tothe IEEE 1394 bus Matrox Meteor 11 1394 OHCI Lynx PCI to 1394 Host controller is compatible with serial IEEE 1394 bus data rates of 100 200 or 400 M bits per second and these rates areshared across thethreeinput ports Once a time slice is allocated the device is guaranteed to have that time slice and therefore transfer data however the time slices available will pose a limitation In smaller systems for example with two or three cameras there should be enough time slices to handle the load 52 Chapter 4 Using multiple Matrox Meteor Il boards Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference This chapter explains the architecture of the Matrox Meteor Il hardware as well as the available features and modes 54 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference BNC Connector Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference This chapter provides information on the architecture operating modes and supported features of the Matrox Meteor 11 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 m
87. ta to other Matrox boards Insert a VM Channel backplane available with interconnect kits across the VM Channel interface to connect theboards Notethat when connecting multiple M atrox boards at least one of the boards you are connecting must be bus controller capable Matrox M eteor 11 is not bus controller capable Connecting Matrox Meteor Il Multi C hannel to the auxiliary power supply input TouseM atrox M eteor 11 Multi Channel to power your camera 1 Usethe 4 pin power cable to connect the auxiliary power supply connector to the power supply in the computer 2 Ensurethat the jumper is across the appropriate M atrox Meteor 11 auxiliary power supply selection pins for the required voltage 5 V or 12 V See Appendix B for a diagram 3 Usethe DBHD44 TO 8BNC O cable to connect your camera s video output and power supply input tothe video input connector Note that the total current drawn by all the cameras is limited to 1 5 A and the circuit uses an auto resettable fuse Matrox Meteor Il Standard and Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus Matrox Meteor I Standard and Multi Channel PC 104 Plus form factor have seven connectors which are indicated in the diagram below a Video input connector A connector used to receive analog video as well as send and receive synchronization signals and power m PC 104 Plus PCI connector An interface connector to send data across the PCI bus 40 Chapter 2 Hardware installat
88. tal and or vertical synchronization signals separately in TTL format a The video source provides a composite synchronization signal in TTL format separate from the analog video Synchronization information can be sent either with the video data or on a separate analog synchronization channel In master mode Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel generates using the PSG the horizontal and or vertical TTL synchronization signals and suppliesthemtothevideo source This allows the video source to synchronize to the board 62 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference Direct TTL trigger Tigger Matrox Meteor I Multi Channel accepts an external trigger input which allows image acquisition to be synchronized to external events The board can operatein one of two modes and the selected mode is specified by the DCF Matrox Meteor 11 Multi Channel can operate in next valid frame field mode When in this mode the digitizer waits for the next valid frame or field as specified by the DCF file before commencing the grab This trigger mode functions in one of three ways m Edge triggered monoshot acquisition The VIA Video Interface Asic waits for the rising falling edge to capture a single frame Edge triggered continuous acquisition The VIA waits for the rising falling edge to start a continous grab m Level sensitive continuous acquisition The VIA grabs continuously while the level of the trigger is high low
89. ter using the instructions from your computer manual 2 Check that you have an empty PCI 32 bit slot that can accommodate the board If you do not have an empty slot remove a PCI board from your computer to make room for your Matrox Meteor Il board and take note of the slot number you choose Connectors of PCI slots 3073 or Connectors of ISA slots A Caution Installing Matrox Meteor Il 25 Some computers have a large black ridged heat sink that prevents boards from using most PCI board slots Your M atrox M eteor 11 must not touch this heat sink Therefore choose a slot where the board completely avoids it Connect the M atrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG moduletothe board if required See the section Installing the M atrox M amp eor l I MJ PEG module If present removethe blank metal plate located at the back of the selected slot K eep the removed screw you will need it to fasten the Matrox Meteor I board Carefully position M atrox M eteor Il in theselected PCI slot as illustrated below If you are using a tower computer orient the board to suit the board slots in your computer PCI form factor 32 BIT PCI BOARD SLOT 6 Onceperfectly aligned with an empty slot press the board firmly but carefully into the connector Anchor the board by replacing the screw that you removed If you are installing the Matrox Meteor I Standard Multi Channel or M eteor I 1394 proceed to Step 9 If you areinstallin
90. the circuit uses an auto resettable fuse Matrox Meteor Il Standard for CompactPCI Matrox M eteor I for CompactPCI has five connectors which areindicated in thediagram below Two of these connectors are located on its bracket and are discussed in detail in Appendix B m Video input connector Used to receive analog video as well as send and receive synchronization signals and power m BNC connector Used to receive composite analog video a CompactPCI connector Used to connect your board tothe PCI bus Connecting external devices 37 m Expansion module interface Used to connect tothe optional Matrox Meteor Il MJ PEG module for image compression and decompression Connector 2 female for expansion module CompactPCl connector xN BNC Connector 1 male for expansion module N Video input Connecting a video input CompactPCI You can connect video sources to Matrox Meteor 11 Standard s video input connector CompactPCI form factor using the optional DBHD44 TO 13BNC cable See the section Connecting a video input to Meteor 11 Standard for PCI or CompactPCI Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel for PCI Matrox M eteor l M ulti Channel has six connectors which are indicated in the diagram below One of these connectors is located on its bracket The first four connectors listed are discussed in detail in Appendix C a Video input connector Used to receive analog video
91. tion Problems ls 76 Grabbing Problems 78 Contacting Matrox 80 Appendix B Technical information Matrox Meteor Il 6 2410 0 0 os todo ERA tebe sare Technical information 82 General information 82 Board input and output connectors 83 Video input connector on Matrox Meteor II for PCI and CompactPCI 85 Video input connector on Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus 87 VMChannel interface connector 88 BNC connector 90 Auxiliary power supply input 90 Auxiliary power supply selection 91 Specifications e Ee e e ee 92 Electrical ginnasio e nee a 92 Appendix C Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Multi Channel s eens 93 Technical information 94 Global information 94 Technical features 4 94 Board input and output connectors 95 Video input connector on the PCI form factor gei Rd Re ie Re 96 Video input connector on the Meteor II Multi Channel for PC 104 Plus 98 VMChannel interface connector 99 Auxiliary power supply input 99 Auxiliary power supply selection 99 Specifications llle 100 Electrical 2 he ewe SESE SEES Yd 100 Environmental eese 100 Appendix D Technical information Matrox Meteor Il Digital 101 Tech
92. to three Y C video sources You can only acquiredata from one channel at atime Channels can be selected with the MIL Lite command MdigChannel Low pass filter The input low pass filtering stage is used to limit high frequency noise and aliasing effects at theinput of the decoder The filter used on Matrox Meteor Il Standard for PCI and CompactPCl is a 4th order Butterworth filter with a cutoff frequency of 8 MHZ The filter used on Matrox M eteor l I Standard for PC 104 Plus is a single order filter with a cutoff frequency of 6 MHz Video decoder A multi standard video decoder is used to convert NTSC and PAL analog videosignals that arein composite CVBS or Y C formats to digitized component video The decoder supports 56 Chapter 5 Matrox Meteor Il hardware reference RGB 8 8 8 24 bit RGB 5 6 5 YUV 4 2 2 and YUV 4 1 10utput pixel formats Note that Y UV 4 2 2 output pixel formats are grabbed as YUY V The video decoder on all form factors also features automatic gain control AGC However you can disablethis feature MIL Lite MdigControl with M GRAB AUTOMATIC INPUT GAIN set toM DISABLE and adjust the gain manually M digControl with M GRAB INPUT GAIN UART Matrox Meteor I Standard for PCI and CompactPCI feature a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter UART that provides an RS 232 serial interface For example this allows you to remotely control a camera or a motion control unit or remot
93. tor supports up tosix Y C sources and the CompactPCI form factor supports up tothree The cable is color coded as follows Wires on Wires on DBHD44 TO 13BNC Description BNC TO SVHS BLUE Y Red Blue Yellow Brown Light Blue Pink Luminance 1 3 6 8 9 11 GREEN C Green Black Purple White Orange Light Green Chrominance 2 4 7 5 10 12 Connecting Matrox Meteor Il Standard to other boards The VM Channel interface allows the transfer of data to other Matrox boards Insert a VM Channel backplane available with interconnect kits across the VM Channel interface to connect theboards Notethat when connecting multiple M atrox boards at least one of the boards must be bus controller capable Matrox M eteor Il is not bus master capable 36 Chapter 2 Hardware installation Connecting Matrox Meteor ll Standard to the auxiliary power supply input To use Matrox Meteor I Standard to power your camera 1 Usethe 4 pin power cable to connect the auxiliary power supply connector to the power supply in the computer 2 Ensurethat the jumper is across the appropriate M atrox Meteor Il auxiliary power supply selection pins for the required voltage 5 V or 12 V See Appendix B for a diagram 3 Usethe DBHD44 TO 13BNC 0 cable to connect your camera s video output and power supply input tothe video input connector Note that the total current drawn by all the cameras is limited to 1 5 A and
94. unction A function that does not return control to the caller until it has finished executing See also asynchronous function Trigger A signal that allows image acquisition to be synchronized to external events If supported a digitizer can operate in one of two modes upon receiving a trigger n Asynchronous reset mode If your digitizer supports and uses this mode the camera is reset to begin a new frame when thetrigger signal is received n Next valid frame field mode If your digitizer supports and uses this mode thedigitizer will grabthe next valid frame or field Vertical sync The part of a video signal that indicates the end of a frame and the start of a new one See also horizontal sync 125 VIA Video Interface ASIC A custom ASIC that connects all the data buses on the board the grab VM Channel and PCI bus to one another and directs and monitors data flow traffic Itisavideointerfacethat provides various ways of inputting and outputting data a VMChannel Vesa Media Channd An industry standard 32 bit bus designed for carrying video data On Matrox Meteor l1 it is used primarily to share data with other Matrox imaging boards 126 Appendix G Glossary Index A acquisition features 1394 68 Digital 64 Multi Channel 58 Standard 54 automatic gain control Multi Channel 59 Standard 56 auxiliary power supply 1394 43 112 Multi Channel 39 64 99 Standard 36 57 90 92 C
95. up tables PSG The Programmable Synchronization Generator PSG is responsible for managing all timing and synchronization signals Control signals Thefollowingis a short description of the control signals on the Matrox M eteor 1l Digital interface Notethat depending on the version of your board the signals will bein RS 422 or LVDS format It is indicated when other signals such as TTL signals are also supported The interface can receive and or supply the HSYNC and VSYNC signals The VIA receives the synchronization signals from the PSG or from an external source TheVIA also receives a VALID signal that can either be generated by the PSG or an external source When received by PSG it can indicate valid pixels on a line by line basis When received from an external source it can indicate valid pixels on a pixel by pixel basis Theinterfaceof theM atrox M eteor 11 Digital board can receive and supply a clock simultaneously Auxiliary Exposure Trigger Matrox Meteor Il Digital grab section 67 Seven general purpose auxiliary signals are supported four RS 422 or LVDS user signals twoinput twooutput and three TTL output signals Theseareavailablefor controlling external devices such as a strobe light User signals are programmed using the MIL Lite command M digControl Twotimers in the PSG can generate two exposure signals simultaneously There are availablein TTL or RS 422 LVDS formats Exposures a
96. ut carefully into the connectors PC 104 Plus form factor On the PC 104 Plus form factor the expansion connectors are located on thesoldered side of the board F ollow thesteps below to connect the Matrox M eteor I MJ PEG module to Matrox Meteor 11 for PC 104 Plus Top pin spacer MJPEG and rivet at opposite side Top pin connector male ofboard MJPEG module d p Meteor Il PC 104 Plus Component side L lie Expansion module PC 104 Plus PC 104 PCI connector female ISA connector connector 1 Align the connectors of the Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module with the expansion module connectors on the Matrox Meteor I board 2 Position the spacer between the boards over each small hole next to the MJ PEG connectors 3 Insert therivet into each hole from the soldered side of the Matrox M eteor 11 MJ PEG module ensuring that it goes through the spacer 4 Pressthe boards together sothe connectors are snapped in place 5 Insert thetop pin through the hole from the soldered side of the Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module to hold the rivet spacer and boards in place 1 The Matrox Meteor II MJPEG module 896 00 rev A has two connectors and two pins 896 01 rev A has three connectors and five pins Connecting external devices 33 Connecting extemal devices All boards and form factors have their own particularities regarding connectors and input
97. wo conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this device in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his her own expense The user is advised that any equipment changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance would void the compliancetoF CC regulations and therefore the user s authority to operate the equipment Industry Canada Compliance Statement This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emission from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of Industry Canada Le pr sent appareil num rique n met pas de bruits radio lectriques d passant les limites applicables aux appareils num riques de Classe A prescrites dans le R glement sur
98. y and lossless MJ PEG interlaced and non interlaced compression and decompression of color and monochrome video There are two versions of the Matrox Meteor Il MJ PEG module available PCI and PC 104 Plus Matrox M eteor 11 for CompactPCI boards can use the PCI version of the Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module The Matrox Meteor I MJ PEG moduleisnot supported by M atrox M eteor 1 I Digital and Matrox Meteor I1 1394 72 Chapter 5 Matrox Mefteor Il hardware reference Meteor Il Grab Port Interface Pixel Data Strip Buffer SRAM Input Output Memory 64Kbytes Color Space Converter Host Interface Host Progressive Interface MJPEG JPEG FPGA Processor Code Interface MJPEG Module Color Space Converter VIA SGRAM Interface Port The Matrox Meteor 11 MJ PEG module supports lossy compression of RGB 8 8 8 and YUV 4 2 2 standard video in conti nuous mode The module also supports lossy and lossless compression of 8 bit monochrome images 10 and 12 bit lossless compression is supported on the PCI CompactPCI version only The Color Space Converter has two functions During compression it converts the incoming data for the PEG processor the data is reformatted from raster format into 8 x 8 pixel blocks and then passed back to theJ PEG processor The Color Space Converter s second function is to convert RGB data into YUV format in order toreducethe processingtime and the amount of data for compression Du

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