Number Of Boards; Order Of Boards - Matrox 4Sight X Installation And Hardware Reference

72 Chapter 3: Adding devices to the Matrox 4Sight X motherboard

Number of boards

You can connect up to three PCI-104 and/or PCI/104-Express boards to the
Matrox 4Sight X motherboard.
You can stack up to three PCI/104-Express boards together, with each board using
one lane (x1), or you can have a single PCI/104-Express board using
four lanes (x4).
The following table describes the possible board configurations.
Type of board
1
PCI/104-Express
PCI-104
1. You cannot connect Matrox and third-party PCI/104-Express boards in the same unit. You can either install one Matrox
Solios eM-CLB/eM-CLF for PCI/104-Express board, or you can install third-party PCI/104-Express board(s), but not both.
2. You can only install one third-party x4 PCI/104-Express board. If you need to install more than one third-party
PCI/104-Express board, the boards must have x1 PCIe interfaces, and must support lane shifting and stack-up
configurations, as defined in the PCI/104-Express standards.

Order of boards

The boards can be connected in any order. However, all PCI/104-Express boards
must be connected directly to each other, with one of the PCI/104-Express boards
connected directly to the motherboard.
Name of board
Matrox Solios eM-CLB/eM-CLF
2
Third-party boards
Matrox Morphis Nexis
Matrox Morphis Dual
Matrox Meteor-II /Multi-Channel
Third-party boards
Maximum number of boards
One (1) board
Three (3) boards
Two (2) boards
Three (3) boards
Three (3) boards
Three (3) boards