Matrox Orion; Acquisition Features - Matrox Orion Installation And Hardware Reference

8 Chapter 1: Introduction
Video
input
CVBS1/Y1/R1
CVBS5/Y3/R2
CVBS2/C1/G1
Expanded
CVBS6/C3/G2
video I/O
CVBS3/Y2/B1
connector*
CVBS7/Y4/B2
CVBS4/C2/S1
CVBS8/C4/S2
Ext. Trigger**
TTL Aux. Input
TTL Aux. Output
* The expanded video I/O connector is
** The external trigger can be either TTL or opto-isolated.
*** Only present on the PCI version.

Matrox Orion

Matrox Orion is a frame grabber, capable of acquiring color and
monochrome images from standard video sources and
displaying them. Matrox Orion is available in both AGP and
PCI versions. You can use Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or
any of its derivatives to program your Matrox Orion.
2:1
MUX
2:1
MUX
4:1
NTSC/PAL
MUX
Video
2:1
Decoder
MUX
2:1
MUX
RGB
24
/
Digitizer
2
/
2
/
used for both inputs and outputs, and is

Acquisition features

Matrox Orion can acquire video from different types of standard
video sources using its video decoder and its RGB digitization
section. The video decoder path can accept monochrome video
in RS-170/CCIR format, or composite (CVBS) or component
(Y/C) color video in NTSC/PAL format. The decoder can convert
color video streams to BGR32 packed for transfers to Host, and
YUV16 packed (YUYV) for transfers to the display, with either
square pixels or CCIR-601 resolutions. The RGB digitization
section can capture component RGB analog video. Matrox
NTSC/PAL
Encoder
Pixel Converter 8
24
Matrox
/
/
128
Frame buffer
(32 Mbytes)
AGP or PCI bus
located on a separate bracket.
R or C
G or Y
B or CVBS
Video
Sync or CVBS
TTL Sync
5
8
/
G400
32
AGP to PCI
Bridge***
TV
output
Expanded
video I/O
connector*
VGA output