Board Summary; Global Information; Technical Features - Matrox Orion Installation And Hardware Reference

52 Appendix B: Technical information

Board summary

Global information

Operating systems: Windows. See your software manual for
supported versions of Windows.
System requirements: A PC with an AGP or PCI bus and a
Pentium-II processor or equivalent.
Note that the AGP version of the Matrox Orion supports AGP
1X on chipsets such as Intel 440LX, and AGP 2X on chipsets
such as Intel 440BX, 820, and 840. If you need more specific
information regarding potential problems, refer to Appendix
A - Troubleshooting.

Technical features

Features eight software-selectable channels, which support
up to eight composite NTSC/PAL (CVBS) video inputs, four
component NTSC/PAL (Y/C) video inputs, or two component
RGB inputs.
Accepts an external trigger input, either opto-isolated or
TTL.
Three 256x8-bit input LUTs.
Programmable reference levels.
Automatic and programmable gain control.
Arbitrary video scaling (up or down).
Maximum display resolution of 1280x1024 for 8-bit and
32-bit images.
32-Mbytes of frame buffer memory, from which an underlay
and overlay frame buffer surface can be allocated
dynamically. Once allocated, the underlay frame buffer
surface is displayed in YUV16 (YUYV) format, and is the
same size as the image selected on the display. The overlay
frame buffer surface is displayed in the same resolution as
the desktop, with 8-bit monochrome or true color 32-bit pixels
(BGR32 packed). The overlay frame buffer surface is also the
same size as the desktop.