Matrox Corona Hardware Reference - Matrox Corona Installation And Hardware Reference

48 Chapter 6: Matrox Corona hardware reference
Acquisition section
Gain & Low
Pass Filter
Trigger
Exposure
Digital Interface
VM Channel

Matrox Corona hardware reference

This chapter provides information on the hardware
architecture of the Matrox Corona, as well as the features and
operating modes supported by the board.
The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section
describes the Matrox Corona hardware that is associated with
the acquisition of images, while the second section describes
the hardware related to the display of images. The third section
discusses the data interfaces, and how to transfer images to
on-board memory and Host memory. For a summary of the
information given in this chapter and detailed specifications of
connectors and pinouts, refer to Appendix B.
Gain
24
LUT Bypass
& Low NTSC/PAL
Pass Decoder
Filter
24
LUT
3X8 bit
RGB
A/Ds
PSG, timers,
registers
24
Secondary
PCI Bus
Host 32-bit
PCI Local bus
Not available on Matrox Corona-LC
Only present on Corona-LC
Optional
Display section
24
Pixel
Rainbow
Packer
Runner
Formatter
Temporary
buffer
(2 MB)
MGA
2164W
VIA
PCI to PCI
Bridge
(Optional)
Encoded
NTSC/PAL
video
Encoder
output
Overlay
frame buffer
(2 or 4 MB) R
G
RAMDAC
B
Image
frame buffer
(2 or 4 MB)