Connecting Video Input Devices; Boards That Can Be Installed In The Matrox 4Sight Xb Unit, And Their Corresponding External Video Connectors; Matrox Boards That Can Be Installed In The Pci/104-Express Matrox 4Sight X Unit, And Their Corresponding External Video Connectors - Matrox 4Sight X Installation And Hardware Reference

38 Chapter 2: Connecting peripherals to the unit

Connecting video input devices

If you have purchased the Matrox 4Sight X unit with a Matrox frame grabber, the
board comes factory installed in the unit and has external connectors located on
a faceplate on the back panel of the Matrox 4Sight X unit. Use these external
connectors to connect your video input devices.
If you have purchased the frame grabber(s) separately, or installed more than one
of these boards in the unit (except for two Matrox Nexis
you will need to connect your video sources directly to these boards. Refer to
Chapter 3: Adding devices to the Matrox 4Sight X motherboard for information on
installing additional boards in the unit. Refer to the board's installation manual
for cable and pinout information.
Boards that can be installed in the Matrox 4Sight XB unit, and
their corresponding external video connectors
Matrox or third-party full-height, half-length x1, x4, or x8
installed inside the Matrox 4Sight XB unit. For more information about these
boards, and the external video connectors on their faceplates, refer to their
accompanying documentation.
❖ Note that these boards, and their corresponding external faceplates, cannot be
installed in the PCI/104-Express Matrox 4Sight X unit.
Matrox boards that can be installed in the PCI/104-Express
Matrox 4Sight X unit, and their corresponding external video
connectors
The following illustration shows the external faceplates of the PCI-104 and
PCI/104-Express Matrox boards that can be installed in the PCI/104-Express
Matrox 4Sight X unit. Connecting video sources to the connectors on their
faceplates is described in the following subsections.
1. You can only install the Matrox Nexis for PCI-104 board in the PCI/104-Express
Matrox 4Sight X unit.
2. The connectors on the riser board are x8 PCIe connectors supporting x1 or x4 electri-
cal connections. If you install an x8 PCIe board in one of the slots, the x8 PCIe board
will operate at a maximum of x4 PCIe or x1 PCIe, depending on the next lowest com-
mon configuration supported by the PCIe board and the riser board (x4 PCIe or
x1 PCIe).
1
for PCI-104 boards),
2
PCIe boards can be