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Third-party supported devices
The following items are available from third-party suppliers. Your Matrox
Iris GTX was designed to work with them, but they are optional.
• Light controllers (such as, the Advanced Illumination inline control system or the
Smart Vision Lights brick light). These can be used to control your strobe (or
light). Your Matrox Iris GTX provides a signal to control the connected light’s
intensity. For information, refer to
Digital I/O and power connector subsection of
the Matrox Iris GTX connectors section, in Appendix B: Technical reference .
• Varioptic Caspian C-39N0-160-I2C or C-39N0-250-I2C lens (liquid lens). This
lens is available from Varioptic and fits inside your Matrox Iris GTX’s IP lens case
for IP67 compatibility. For more details about how to connect this lens, refer to
Optionally connecting a liquid lens section, in Chapter 2: Powering and connecting
to your Matrox Iris GTX .
Software overview
The Matrox Iris GTX with Design Assistant is distributed with Matrox Design
Assistant, a flowchart-based, integrated development environment (IDE). It
allows you to create an imaging application without writing a single line of code.
Application development is a step-by-step approach, where each step is taken from
an existing toolbox and is configured through a series of dialog windows. Matrox
Design Assistant runs on your development computer and uses the resources of
your Matrox Iris GTX smart camera (for example, to grab an image and
communicate with connected devices) to build projects. Once the project is built,
it runs on your Matrox Iris GTX without relying on the resources of your
development computer.
With Matrox Design Assistant, you can:
• Create your project as a series of steps using a flowchart.
• Test your project from your computer without any additional code editors or
compilers and without deploying (copying and running) your project on your
Matrox Iris GTX.
• Design and layout a web page (operator view) to receive operator input and to
display your project's output.