1394B Interfaces - Matrox 4Sight X Installation And Hardware Reference

98 Chapter 5: Matrox 4Sight X hardware reference
Warning
Warning
PCI/104-Express Matrox 4Sight X unit
The PCI and PCIe interfaces of the PCI/104-Express Matrox 4Sight X unit allow
you to install:
- Up to three Matrox (or third-party) frame grabbers for PCI-104.
- One Matrox Solios eM-CL board, or up to three third-party
x1 PCI/104-Express boards.
- The motherboard does not have appropriate connectors to provide access to
PC/104 or PC/104-Plus boards (these boards require an ISA connector).
Note that the PCI/104-Expresss Matrox 4Sight X unit cannot tolerate all PCI-104
boards; it only supports PCI-104 boards with 3.3 V signalling.

1394b interfaces

The Matrox 4Sight X motherboard has three IEEE 1394b input ports, supported
using an IEEE 1394b controller. The IEEE 1394b input ports permit simplified,
high-performance digital video capture from 1394a and 1394b cameras compliant
with the IIDC standard.
IEEE 1394a and 1394b cameras can be attached to any one or all three
IEEE 1394b input ports, as long as the configuration of cameras comply with the
IEEE 1394 tree topology.
Serial data bus rates of 100, 200, 400, or 800 Mbits/s are shared across the three
input ports. All ports will operate at a maximum data bus rate of the slowest device
attached to any of the IEEE 1394b input ports.
Note that if you unplug an allocated 1394a/b camera while a Matrox Imaging
Library (MIL) application is running, your computer might freeze.
The three ports (combined) can supply up to 15 W to IEEE 1394a/b cameras.
Attached cameras act like normal I/O peripherals (for example, a hard disk drive).
The Host can filter the data and recreate the image using an extra layer of the
driver that is compliant with the 1394b IIDC standard.