Matrox Design Assistant - Matrox Iris E Series Installation And Technical Reference

M a t r o x D e s i g n A s s i s t a n t
Matrox Design Assistant is a flowchart-based, Windows program that integrates
a development environment for Matrox Iris E-Series smart cameras. It allows you
to create an imaging application without writing a single line of code. Application
development is visually a step-by-step approach, where each step is taken from an
existing toolbox and is configured through a series of dialog windows. Matrox
Design Assistant runs on your development computer and uses the resources of
your Matrox Iris E-Series smart camera (for example, to grab an image and
communicate with connected devices).
With Matrox Design Assistant, you can:
• Create your project as a series of steps using a flowchart.
• Test your project from your computer without any additional code editors or
compilers and without deploying (copying and running) your project on your
Matrox Iris E-Series.
• Design and layout a web page (operator view) to receive operator input and to
display your project's output.
• Run, terminate, and re-run the project on your Matrox Iris E-Series from within

Matrox Design Assistant.

Imaging projects can:
• Grab images from your Matrox Iris E-Series or use images from disk.
• Analyze images using several industry-proven image analysis and measurement
tools (for example, code reader and geometric model finder tools).
• Send and receive user-defined signals from the I/O port of your Matrox Iris
E-Series.
• Send and receive information from the serial port of your Matrox Iris E-Series.
• Send and receive information and save images across the network.
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