Matrox Meteor-Ii /Standard - Matrox Meteor-II /Standard Installation And Hardware Reference

8 Chapter 1: Introduction

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard

Matrox Meteor-II /Standard is a standard monochrome and color analog frame
grabber. This board is available in a PCI, PC/104-Plus, or CompactPCI (3U) form
factor.
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
Not available on
CompactPCI
form factor
Not available on PC/104-Plus
form factor
Matrox Meteor-II /Standard can acquire different types of standard video formats
Acquisition features
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
CCIR-601 resolutions. It can also convert RS-170/CCIR video formats with
square pixels or CCIR-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.
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Low
Pass Gain Decoder
Filter
12:1
MUX
Trigger
{ 2
Aux
2
RX
RS-232
TX
drivers &
/RTS
receivers
/CTS
VMChannel (not available
on CompactPCI and
PC/104-Plus)
24
32
Opto-
64
coupler
VIA
UART
32
Host 32-bit PCI bus
Video transfer
memory
(4 Mbytes)