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More information

For information on using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards, refer to Chapter 3, 
and for in-depth hardware information, refer to Chapter 4.

If you want technical information about Matrox Meteor-II /Standard, including 
specifications and connector descriptions, and pinouts, refer to Appendix B.

A revision history for the Matrox Meteor-II /Standard is available in Appendix C.

Conventions

When the term 

Host

 is used in this manual, it refers to your computer.

This manual occasionally makes reference to a MIL-Lite command. However, 
anything that can be accomplished with MIL-Lite can also be accomplished with 
MIL, ActiveMIL, ActiveMIL-Lite, or Matrox Inspector.

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Need help? 

Appendix A offers solutions to potential problems. If your 
Matrox Meteor-II /Standard installation questions are not answered in this 
manual, contact your local Matrox representative, Matrox Sales Office, or Matrox 
Imaging Customer Support Group (see the 

Customer Support

 section at the back 

of this manual for telephone numbers).

In the unlikely event of a failure, the warranty and 

Product Assistance Request

 

Form

 

at the back of this manual outlines return conditions and procedures.

1. Most items can be accomplished with Matrox Inspector.

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Summary of Contents for Meteor-II /Standard

Page 1: ...underutilized and idle equipment along with credit for buybacks and trade ins Custom engineering so your equipment works exactly as you specify Critical and expedited services Leasing Rentals Demos I...

Page 2: ...Meteor II Standard Installation and Hardware Reference Manual no 10577 101 0500 October 9 2003 ox Meteor II Digital Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisa...

Page 3: ...ut limitation damages or costs relating to the loss of profits business goodwill even if advised of the possibility of such damages In no event will Matrox and its suppliers liability exceed the amoun...

Page 4: ...Standard for CompactPCI 18 Installing Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus 19 Note about Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus 22 Connecting external devices 23 Matrox Meteor II Standard for...

Page 5: ...ilter 35 Video decoder 35 UART and RS 232 serial port 36 Trigger 36 User bits 37 Using the auxiliary power supply 37 Data interfaces 37 Video Interface ASIC 37 PCI interface 38 VMChannel 38 Appendix A...

Page 6: ...d for PC 104 Plus 50 BNC connector 51 VMChannel interface connector 51 Auxiliary power supply input 53 Auxiliary power supply selection 54 Specifications 55 Electrical 55 Environmental 57 Appendix C L...

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Page 8: ...hapter 1 Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter outlines the key features of the Matrox Meteor II Standard board Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg co...

Page 9: ...e software selectable input channels to switch between six Y C or twelve composite video sources The CompactPCI form factor features seven inputs to switch between three Y C or seven composite video s...

Page 10: ...oard 1 Software To operate Matrox Meteor II Standard you can purchase one or more Matrox Imaging software products that support the Matrox Meteor II Standard board These are the Matrox Imaging Library...

Page 11: ...hine vision image analysis and medical imaging system End users can use Matrox Inspector to perform and automate image enhancement and measurement tasks Matrox Intellicam Matrox Intellicam is an inter...

Page 12: ...t or might not be included depending on what you ordered If something is missing or damaged contact your Matrox representative Standard package If you ordered Matrox Meteor II Standard you should rece...

Page 13: ...nd the circuits on Matrox Meteor II Standard are sensitive to static electricity and surges Improper handling can seriously damage the circuits Be sure to follow these precautions Drain static electri...

Page 14: ...ything that can be accomplished with MIL Lite can also be accomplished with MIL ActiveMIL ActiveMIL Lite or Matrox Inspector 1 Need help Appendix A offers solutions to potential problems If your Matro...

Page 15: ...14 Chapter 1 Introduction Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com...

Page 16: ...er 2 Chapter 2 Hardware installation This chapter explains how to install the Matrox Meteor II Standard hardware Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg...

Page 17: ...Meteor II to your computer you will have to re install your software after installing your board Installing Matrox Meteor II Standard for PCI Use the following steps to install your Matrox Meteor II...

Page 18: ...position Matrox Meteor II in the selected PCI slot as illustrated below If you are using a tower computer orient the board to suit the board slots in your computer 5 Once perfectly aligned with an em...

Page 19: ...ts derivatives Installing Matrox Meteor II Standard for CompactPCI Use the following steps to install your Matrox Meteor II board for CompactPCI 3U Note that a 6U replacement bracket is optional 1 Rem...

Page 20: ...will be asked to assign a driver to it At this point you should click on Cancel because the driver will be installed during the installation of MIL or one of its derivatives Installing Matrox Meteor I...

Page 21: ...you have an available PC 104 Plus connector on the motherboard or verify that your existing stack can support another board 3 Remove the anchoring screws from the stack do not discard them since you w...

Page 22: ...your video sources For details see the Connecting external devices section 9 Turn on your computer In some cases when you boot your computer Windows Plug and Play system will detect a new PCI card an...

Page 23: ...ane perpendicular to the board The latter allows the Matrox Meteor II board to be hardwired to the input connector of the Matrox 4Sight II unit as such it can only be used as the first board in the PC...

Page 24: ...scussed in detail in Appendix B Video input connector Used to receive analog video as well as send and receive synchronization signals and power BNC connector Used to receive composite analog video Au...

Page 25: ...C connector Used to receive composite analog video CompactPCI connector Used to connect your board to the PCI bus Connecting a video input to Meteor II Standard for PCI or CompactPCI You can connect v...

Page 26: ...a bus controller The VMChannelisnotsupported on the CompactPCIand the PC 104 Plus form factors Wires Signals Expected Input Form factor 1 VID_IN1 Analog Video Input1 or Y1 PCI CompactPCI 2 VID_IN2 Ana...

Page 27: ...your camera s video output and power supply input to the video input connector Note that the total current drawn by all the cameras is limited to 1 5 A and the circuit uses an auto resettable fuse Mat...

Page 28: ...o input connector See Appendix B for the pinouts signals and ribbon cable information for the Standard board The Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus designed for Matrox 4Sight II has a custom vi...

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Page 30: ...3 Chapter 3 Using multiple Matrox Meteor II boards This chapter explains how to use multiple Matrox Meteor II boards Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artis...

Page 31: ...his 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 ha...

Page 32: ...the setting fixed at 0 therefore the setting for the additional board must be something other than 0 or 4 Grabbing simultaneously from different boards You can simultaneously grab images from cameras...

Page 33: ...roblems when grabbing up to two full sized color images simultaneously using two boards However grabbing more than two full sized color images simultaneously might result in PCI bandwidth problems As...

Page 34: ...reference This chapter explains the architecture of the Matrox Meteor II Standard hardware as well as the available features and modes Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888...

Page 35: ...and component Y C video in NTSC PAL format 4 Mbytes VMChannel not available on CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus Gain Decoder To DB 44 Connector for PCI and Compact PCI form factors BNC Connector for PCI and...

Page 36: ...PCI is a 4th order Butterworth filter with a cutoff frequency of 8 MHz The filter used on Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus is a single order filter with a cutoff frequency of 6 MHz Video deco...

Page 37: ...it is received through an opto coupler that isolates therestofthecircuitryfromelectricalsurges Matrox Meteor II Standardoperates in next valid frame field mode When in this mode the digitizer waits f...

Page 38: ...nector see the section Connecting Matrox Meteor II Standard for PCI to the auxiliary power supply input in Chapter 2 and Appendix B Note that this input is not available on the CompactPCI and PC 104 P...

Page 39: ...s by using some of the VMChannel logic Consequently VMChannel and PCI transfers cannot be performed simultaneously Read pre fetch and write posting buffers are integrated to optimize Host access VMCha...

Page 40: ...you resolve potential problems If your problem is not addressed here contact your local Matrox representative Matrox Sales Office or the Matrox Imaging Customer Support Group Artisan Technology Group...

Page 41: ...e corresponding pins on your board See the section Installing Matrox Meteor II Standard for PC 104 Plus in Chapter 2 If your computer has PC 104 modules you must re stack them so the PC 104 modules ar...

Page 42: ...problem with the PCI form factor first try to swap boards from one PCI slot to another for the PC 104 Plus change the rotary switch settings If the problem still persists try upgrading your BIOS If t...

Page 43: ...onnected OPTOTRIG is usually connected to the ground of the trigger source IRQ conflicts In general PCI devices can share an interrupt line IRQ However sometimes this might not be possible The types o...

Page 44: ...ls and open Computer Management From the Computer Management explorerwindow selectSystem Tools followedby Device Manager From the View menu select the Resources by type and expand the Interrupt reques...

Page 45: ...44 Appendix A Troubleshooting Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com...

Page 46: ...cal information This appendix contains information that might be useful when installing your Matrox Meteor II Standard board Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE w...

Page 47: ...00 or E7505 If you need more specific information regarding potential problems refer to the Troubleshooting appendix Technical features For PCI and PC 104 Plus form factors twelve software selectable...

Page 48: ...PCI form factor Matrox Meteor II Standard PCI form factor has five connectors a VMChannel an auxiliary power supply input a video input a BNC connector and a PCI connector VMChannel Video input Auxil...

Page 49: ...Plus form factor Matrox Meteor II for the PC 104 Plus form factor stand alone version has four interface connectors a video input a PC 104 Plus PCI and two PC 104 ISA connectors CompactPCI connector V...

Page 50: ...PCI 9 USER 2 _IN I Auxiliary User Input 2 PCI CompactPCI 11 VID_IN5 I Analog Video Input 5 or C4 PCI CompactPCI 13 VID_IN3 I Analog Video Input 3 or Y2 PCI CompactPCI 14 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 15 V...

Page 51: ...nput 7 or C3 PCI CompactPCI 41 VID_IN6 I Analog Video Input 6 or Y3 PCI CompactPCI 42 GND Ground PCI CompactPCI 43 VID_IN4 I Analog Video Input 4 or C2 PCI CompactPCI 44 VID_IN2 I Analog Video Input 2...

Page 52: ...Channel interface allows Matrox Meteor II Standard to share data with any Matrox imaging board that has a VMChannel interface capable of performing the bus controller function A VMChannel backplane av...

Page 53: ...1 4 DGND 38 SNRDYN 5 CONTROL 39 DGND 6 N C 40 DGND 7 CLK 41 DGND 8 VMSENSE 42 DGND 9 MASK0 43 MASK1 10 DGND 44 DATA 0 11 DATA 1 45 DGND 12 DATA 2 46 DATA 3 13 DGND 47 DATA 4 14 DATA 5 48 DGND 15 DATA...

Page 54: ...with an auto resettable fuse Note that this input is not available on the CompactPCI and PC 104 Plus form factors The pinout of the auxiliary power supply input connector is as follows 18 DATA 10 52 D...

Page 55: ...ng pin numbers As shown in the table below place the jumper across pins 1 and 2 for a 5 V supply output and across pins 2 and 3 for a 12 V supply output By default auxiliary power supply is strapped f...

Page 56: ...aximum current Power Consumption1 PCI and CompactPC 5 V 5 5 V 5 3 3 V 5 12 V 10 12 V 10 9 85 W 1 25 A n a n a 250 mA 50 mA PC 104 Plus 100 mA 25 mA 1 1 A 150 mA n a 6 06 W 1 This number represents the...

Page 57: ...Termination 511 ohms series Input current Min of low 0 A Max of low 250 A Min of high 5 mA1 Max of high 15 mA2 Input voltage Min of low 0 V Max of low 0 8 V Min of high 2 V Max of high 5 V 1 A Min of...

Page 58: ...55 C Min max storage temperature 40 C 75 C Max altitude for operation 3000 meters Max altitude for transport 12000 meters Operating humidity 20 80 relative humidity non condensing Artisan Technology...

Page 59: ...58 Appendix B Technical information Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com...

Page 60: ...of Matrox Meteor II Standard Boards This appendix lists specific versions and revisions of the Matrox Meteor II Standard board Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE...

Page 61: ...I Standard for CompactPCI 807 00 rev A Original version 807 00 rev B No functional changes 807 0001 rev A Support for KS0127 rev B video decoder Note that MJPEG module support has been removed for som...

Page 62: ...ppendix D Glossary This appendix defines some of the specialized terms used in this Matrox Meteor II document Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg co...

Page 63: ...urfaces of a buffer A grayscale image requires just one band A color image requires three bands one for each color component Bandwidth A term describing the capacity to transfer data Greater bandwidth...

Page 64: ...s how to accept or generate video timing signals such as horizontal sync vertical sync and pixel clock Display memory See frame buffer Exposure time Refers to the period during which the image sensor...

Page 65: ...space that represents color using components of hue saturation and luminance The hue component describes the actual color of a pixel The saturation component describes the concentration of that color...

Page 66: ...als PLC Programmable Logic Controller A device used to automate monitoring and control of industrial plants It can be used as a stand alone device or in conjunction with data acquisition Progressive s...

Page 67: ...he caller until it has finished executing See also asynchronous function Vertical sync The part of a video signal that indicates the end of a frame and the start of a new one See also horizontal sync...

Page 68: ...G grab section gain control 36 low pass filter 35 performance 35 trigger 36 UART RS 232 serial port 36 video decoder 35 grabbing from multiple boards 31 H hardware connecting external devices 23 PCI...

Page 69: ...pecifications electrical 55 environmental 57 technical 46 system requirements 10 T technical information 46 timing 35 trigger 36 troubleshooting 40 U UART 36 V VIA 9 37 VIA s PCI port 38 video decoder...

Page 70: ...radio communications Operationofthisdeviceinaresidentialareaislikelyto causeharmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his her own expense The user is...

Page 71: ...a typical class A compliant host system It is assumed that this device will also achieve compliance in any Class A compliant system Le pr sent appareil num rique r pond aux exigences stipul es dans la...

Page 72: ...teps 1 Contact Customer Support The Customer support contacts information sheet included in your package has the phone numbers for Matrox s offices Customer Support will ask you to describe the proble...

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Page 74: ...n Operating system Rev Matrox SW used Rev Compiler Rev Fill out only if you are returning a board RMA Who were you talking to in customer support Date board was received Date of failure MOD These numb...

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