Matrox Meteor Assembly Instructions

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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Matrox Meteor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
What you need to get started. . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Inspecting the Matrox Meteor package . . . . . .13
Standard package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Optional parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Handling components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Chapter 2: Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Installing Matrox Meteor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Attaching a video input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
No circuitry protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Chapter 3: Installing software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Installing the software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Note about Intellicam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Chapter 4: Transferring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Transfer speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Chapter 5: Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards . . . . 27
Using multiple Matrox Meteor boards. . . . . . . 28
Multiple board installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Grabbing simultaneously from different boards29
Number of cameras per board . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
PCI bandwidth requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 6: Using Matrox Meteor/
RGB’s trigger input capability. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the Matrox Meteor trigger . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Signal paths and requirements . . . . . . . . . 34
TTL pulse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Pulse width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
No circuitry protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Appendix A: Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Common problems and solutions . . . . . . . . . . 38
Contacting Matrox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Appendix B: Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Global information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Grab information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Data transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Board input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
DB-9 female connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
S-VHS connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Phono connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Appendix C: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Customer support
❖Note, when a reference is made to Matrox Meteor or Matrox Meteor/RGB, the
information that follows also applies to the version of these boards that includes
the integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.

Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter briefly describes the features of Matrox
Meteor.

8 Chapter 1: Introduction
Matrox Meteor
Matrox Meteor is a single-slot, monochrome and color PCI
frame grabber. It features real-time transfers to off-board
system or display RAM (depending on the system and VGA
board used) and provides support for live video-in-a-window.
You can use the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or any of its
derivatives to program Matrox Meteor.
Matrox Meteor comes in four versions:
■Matrox Meteor, a standard monochrome and color frame
grabber.
■Matrox Meteor/PPB, a standard monochrome and color
frame grabber with an integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.
■Matrox Meteor/RGB, an RGB color frame grabber.
■Matrox Meteor/PPB/RGB, an RGB color frame grabber with
an integrated PCI-to-PCI bridge.
❖Note, when a reference is made to Matrox Meteor or Matrox
Meteor/RGB, the information that follows also applies to the
version of these boards that includes the integrated
PCI-to-PCI bridge.

Matrox Meteor 9
Acquisition
Matrox Meteor boards have standard monochrome and color
acquisition capabilities. They accept RS-170/CCIR
monochrome video signals and NTSC/PAL color video signals
in either a composite or Y/C (S-Video or S-VHS) format. They
have four software-selectable video input channels for
interfacingwithuptofourvideosources.Furthermore,foreasy
signal calibration, they support programmable brightness,
contrast, hue, and saturation.
Meteor/RGB boards provide support for component RGB
acquisition, with independent gain and offset controls for each
channel. They support all of Meteor’s input capabilities, except
for color video signals in Y/C format. This capability has been
exchanged for support of a synchronous trigger input (by way
of the Y/C connector).
For added flexibility, the Meteor/RGB frame grabber can
simultaneously grab from up to three standard monochrome
video sources, provided the sources are genlocked.In this case,
thethreeinputscannotbedisplayedinreal-timesincethevideo
data is packed (consecutive pixels belong to different channels).