Multiple Board Installation - Matrox Meteor-II /Digital Installation And Hardware Reference

30 Chapter 4: Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards
Installing multiple PCI
boards
Installing multiple
PC/104-Plus boards
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Multiple board installation

This section describes how to use multiple Matrox Meteor-II
boards.
Install each additional Matrox Meteor-II board for PCI as you
installed the first board (refer to Chapter 2). In other words,
place each additional board in an empty slot. For the PCI form
factor, ensure that the installed boards avoid the CPU heat
sink.
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox Meteor-II
PCI 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.
The number of PC/104-Plus baords that you can stack depends
on the computer you are using. If using Matrox 4Sight or
Matrox 4Sight-II integrated units, you can stack a maximum
of three PC/104-Plus boards, as shown in the diagram below.
Note that if you have PC/104 boards in your computer, they
must be placed at the top of the stack.