Matrox orion HD, Installation And Hardware Manual

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Simultaneous image capture from different
boards
Besides simultaneously capturing images from up to two video sources attached
to a Matrox Orion HD board, you can simultaneously capture images from video
sources attached to different Matrox Orion HD boards.
The use of a high performance PCIe chipset is necessary to sustain PCIe transfers
to Host memory. The list of platforms that are known to be compatible with
Matrox Orion HD are available on the Matrox web site, under the board’s
compatibility list.
To measure the effective, available bandwidth of the PCIe interface used by your
Matrox Orion HD board, you can use the Orion HD Bench tool integrated in
the MILConfig utility. As a reference point, capturing from a 1920 x 1080,
BGR32, 60 frames/sec video source will require a minimum bandwidth of
500 Mbytes/sec, plus an additional bandwidth margin of approximately 20%, for
a bandwidth of 600 Mbytes/sec.