Matrox Radient eCL Series Assembly Instructions

Matrox Radient eCL
Installation and Hardware Reference
Manual no. Y11144-101-0200
February 5, 2014

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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Matrox Radient eCL boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
General acquisition features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Processing capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
On-board acquisition and processing memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Additional functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Essentials to get started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Inspecting the Matrox Radient eCL package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Standard items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Available separately . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Handling components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 2: Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing your Matrox Radient eCL board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing the cable adapter bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connecting video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 3: Using multiple Matrox Radient eCL boards . . . . . . . 29
Installation of multiple boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Simultaneous image capture from different boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chapter 4: Matrox Radient eCL hardware reference . . . . . . . . . 31
Matrox Radient eCL hardware reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Matrox Radient eCL acquisition section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Supported video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
ChannelLink receivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Demultiplexers to support time-multiplexed video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
UARTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PSGs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Camera control and auxiliary signals for
Matrox Radient eCL-DB and eCL-QB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Camera control and auxiliary signals for
Matrox Radient eCL-SF and eCL-DF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Specifications of the auxiliary and camera control signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Rotary decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
User signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Acquisition controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Processing FPGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Possible processing operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
FPGA chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Host interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Color space converter and pixel formatter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Appendix A: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Appendix B: Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Board summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Global information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Technical features of Matrox Radient eCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Electrical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Dimensions and environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connectors on Matrox Radient eCL boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Camera Link video input connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
External auxiliary I/O connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Appendix C: Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
UART copyright information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Appendix D: Major revisions of Matrox Radient eCL boards . . 89
Major revisions of Matrox Radient eCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Index
Regulatory Compliance
FCC Compliance Statement
Industry Canada Compliance Statement
EU Notice (European Union)
Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Limited warranty

Chapter
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Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter briefly describes the features of the Matrox
Radient eCL boards, as well as the software that can be
used with the boards.

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Matrox Radient eCL boards
Matrox Radient eCL is a family of high-performance PCIe frame grabbers that
acquire images from Camera Link video sources and offer FPGA-based processing
offload capabilities.
There are four Matrox Radient eCL members: eCL-DB, eCL-QB, eCL-SF, and
eCL-DF.Matrox Radient eCL-DB and eCL-QB support acquisition from Camera
Link video sources in Base configuration; eCL-DB supports simultaneous
acquisition from two of these video sources, whereas eCL-QB supports four
simultaneously. Matrox Radient eCL-SF and eCL-DF support acquiescing from
Camera Link video sources in Medium or Full configuration (with up to 10 taps);
eCL-SF supports acquisition from one of these video sources, whereas eCL-DF
supports two simultaneously.
Matrox Radient eCL supports power-over Camera Link (PoCL) compliant video
sources and Camera Link frequencies of 20 MHz to 85 MHz.
This manual uses the term Matrox Radient eCL to refer to all members of Matrox
Radient eCL. It uses the term Matrox Radient eCL-DB/QB to refer to both
Matrox Radient eCL-DB and eCL-QB. It uses the term Matrox Radient
eCL-SF/DF to refer to both Matrox Radient eCL-SF and eCL-DF. When
necessary, this manual distinguishes between the boards using their full names.

Matrox Radient eCL boards 9
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Opto Aux In (2)
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Optional eCL
adapter bracket
Matrox eCL-QB
expansion module1
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Auxiliary I/O
interface
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Acquisition
Controller
Memory
Controller
Optional
Dedicated
Processing
Memory
4or8MB
4or8MB
4or8MB
4or8MB
Altera Stratix III
Processing FPGA
(customizable)
Processing
Units
(QDR-II SRAM
250 MHz)
Host x8 PCIe bus
MIL license
fingerprint
and
Supplemental MIL
license storage
Matrox Radient
eCL-DB/QB
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
1GB
Up to1 GB
Up to
10.6 GB/s
Up to
10.6 GB/s
Total of
up to 4.0 GB/s write
and
up to 4.0 GB/s read
Color space
converter &
pixel
formatter
Host Interface
DMA
Read
DMA
Write
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
AC 0
AC 3
AC 2
AC 1
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Opto Aux In (2)
Opto Aux In (2)
Opto Aux In (2)
Main On-board Memory
(DDR-667 SDRAM)
2GB
Note that, without the expansion module, this is a flow diagram of
Matrox Radient eCL-DB.
With the expansion module, this is a flow diagram of Matrox Radient
eCL-QB. eCL-DB is not upgradable to eCL-QB; the eCL-DB does not
have the required connector for the eCL-QB module.
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Color space
converter &
pixel
formatter
Host Interface
DMA
Read
DMA
Write
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
2 GB/s
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Opto Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Opto Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Optional eCL
adapter bracket
Matrox eCL-DF
expansion module1
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
CC (4)
UART
Camera Link
Interface
with PoCL
Data
Clock
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Opto Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Auxiliary I/O
interface
Acquisition
Controller
Memory
Controller
Optional
Dedicated
Processing
Memory
4or8MB
4or8MB
4or8MB
4or8MB
Altera Stratix III
Processing FPGA
(customizable)
Processing
Units
(QDR-II SRAM
250 MHz)
Host x8 PCIe bus
MIL license
fingerprint
and
Supplemental MIL
license storage Matrox Radient
eCL-SF/DF
Up to
2 GB/s
Up to
10.6 GB/s
Up to
10.6 GB/s
Total of
up to 4.0 GB/s write
and
up to 4.0 GB/s read
AC 0
AC 1
Up to
1GB
Up to1 GB
Opto Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux In (2)
LVDS Aux Out (1)
TTL Aux I/Os (3)
Main On-board Memory
(DDR-667 SDRAM)
2GB
Note that, without the expansion module, this is a flow diagram of Matrox
Radient eCL-SF.
With the expansion module, this is a flow diagram of Matrox Radient eCL-
DF. Matrox Radient eCL-SF is not upgradable to eCL-DF; the eCL-SF does
not have the required connector for the eCL-DF module.
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