Using Multiple Matrox Meteor Boards; Multiple Board Installation - Matrox Meteor Installation And Hardware Reference

28 Chapter 5: Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards

Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards

This section describes how multiple Matrox Meteor boards can
be supported in a single PC. The use of multiple Matrox Meteor
boards allow you to grab multiple images simultaneously and
display them. It is possible to grab from genlocked cameras or
from non-synchronous sources (in the latter case, camera
output formats can be different).
The display of grabbed images from each camera will be live
(active window) or pseudo-live (non-active window), depending
on the operating system, the position of the windows, and the
available PCI bandwidth.

Multiple board installation

Install each additional Meteor board in the same fashion as you
installed the first (refer to Chapter 2). In other words, place
each additional board in an empty PCI slot, taking care that
they avoid the CPU heat sink. You can theoretically have as
many as 16 Matrox Meteor boards installed in your PC at one
time; this number is, however, limited by the number of empty
slots in your system and, for simultaneous grabs, the available
bandwidth of your system.
You indicate which Matrox Meteor boards to use using MIL
software.