Matrox Meteor-Ii Hardware Reference; Matrox Meteor-Ii /Standard Grab Section - Matrox Meteor-II /Standard Installation And Hardware Reference

34 Chapter 4: Hardware reference

Matrox Meteor-II hardware reference

This chapter provides information on the architecture, operating modes, and
supported features of the Matrox Meteor-II /Standard board.
For a summary of the information given in this chapter and detailed specifications
of connectors and pinouts, refer to Appendix B of this manual.

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard grab section

The grab section of the Matrox Meteor-II /Standard board uses a video decoder
to capture RS-170 /CCIR monochrome video and composite (CVBS) and
component (Y/C) video in NTSC /PAL format.
BNC Connector for
PCI and Compact
PCI form factors
To DB-44
VID_IN1
Connector for
VID_IN2
PCI and Compact
VID_IN3
PCI form factors
VID_IN4
VID_IN5
VID_IN6
VID_IN7
To 30-pin male,
VID_IN8
right-angle
VID_IN9
connector for
VID_IN10
PC/104-Plus
VID_IN11
form factor
VID_IN12
Trigger
Not available on
CompactPCI
Aux
form factor
Not available on PC/104-Plus
form factor
.
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Low
Pass
Gain Decoder
Filter
12:1
MUX
coupler
{ 2
2
RX
RS-232
TX
drivers & UART
/RTS
receivers
/CTS
VMChannel (not available
on CompactPCI and
PC/104-Plus)
24
32
Opto-
64
VIA
32
Host 32-bit PCI bus
Video transfer
memory
(4 Mbytes)