Data Transfer; Software - Matrox CronosPlus Installation And Hardware Reference

Software

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Matrox CronosPlus has 3 TTL auxiliary input signals and 4 TTL auxiliary output
signals, that can be used to transmit and receive application-specific user input
and output, and one opto-isolated auxiliary signal, that can be used to trigger
image acquisition.

Data transfer

The Matrox CronosPlus board allows the transfer of live video to Host memory.
Matrox CronosPlus also features a 32-bit/33 MHz PCI bus master to reduce CPU
usage. The board can also generate interrupts for the start and end of a field, frame,
and sequence capture.
Software
To operate Matrox CronosPlus, you can purchase one or more Matrox Imaging
software products that support the Matrox CronosPlus board. These are the
Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and its derivatives (MIL-Lite and Matrox
Intellicam). All Matrox software is supported under Windows; consult your
software manual for supported Windows environments.
❖ Note that, although other software products might be available to operate Matrox
CronosPlus, the discussion throughout this manual is based in terms of Matrox
Imaging software products.
MIL is a high-level programming library with an extensive set of optimized
MIL
functions for image capture, processing, analysis, transfer, compression, display,
and archiving. Image processing operations include point-to-point, statistical,
spatial filtering, morphological, geometric transformation, and FFT operations.
Analysis operations support calibration, are performed with sub-pixel accuracy,
and include pattern recognition (normalized grayscale correlation and Geometric
Model Finder), blob analysis, edge extraction and analysis, measurement, image
registration, metrology, character recognition (template-based and feature-based),
code recognition and verification (1D, 2D and composite code types), bead
(continuous strips of material) inspection, 3D reconstruction, and color analysis.
MIL applications are easily ported to new Matrox hardware platforms and can be
designed to take advantage of multi-processing and multi-threading
environments.