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18 Chapter 3: Using multiple Matrox CronosPlus boards
Multiple board installation
This section describes how to use multiple Matrox CronosPlus boards.
Install each additional Matrox CronosPlus board as you installed the first board
(refer to Chapter 2). In other words, place each additional board in an empty slot.
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox CronosPlus boards installed in
your computer at one time; this number is, however, limited by the number of
empty slots in your computer and, for simultaneous grabs, by the available
bandwidth of your computer (discussed later in this chapter).
Using MIL-Lite, you have to allocate a MIL system for each board and allocate
the resources of each MIL system.
Grabbing simultaneously from different
boards
You can simultaneously grab images from cameras attached to different Matrox
CronosPlus boards; however, the number of cameras from which you can
simultaneously grab is determined by the PCI bandwidth available in your
computer.
Matrox CronosPlus is susceptible to PCI bus latency. In addition, sustained
PCI-transfers to memory require the use of a high performance PCI core-logic
chipset, such as the Intel 820, 840, or 850. If a high performance chipset is used
with a Matrox CronosPlus board, you should not have any PCI bandwidth
Camera 1
Camera 2
Matrox CronosPlus
Matrox CronosPlus
Grabbing from two Matrox CronosPlus boards