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Matrox Meteor-II /Digital
Installation and Hardware Reference
Manual no. Y10762-101-0103
January 9, 2013
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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Data transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
What you need to get started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Inspecting the Matrox Meteor-II /Digital package 13
Standard package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Optional items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Handling components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Installation overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Chapter 2: Hardware installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing Matrox Meteor-II /Digital . . . . . . . . . . .18
Installing Matrox Meteor-II /Digital for PCI . .18
Installing Matrox Meteor-II /Digital for PC/
104-Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Connecting external devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital for PCI . . . . . . . . . . .24
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital for PC/104-Plus . . . .26
Chapter 3: Installing software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Note about Matrox Intellicam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
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Chapter 4: Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards . . 29
Multiple board installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Grabbing simultaneously from different
boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5: Hardware reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Matrox Meteor-II hardware reference . . . . . . . . . 36
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital grab section . . . . . . . . . 36
UART and RS-232 serial port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Lookup tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PSG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Control signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Data interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Video Interface ASIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
PCI interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
VMChannel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Appendix A: Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Common problems and solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Grabbing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Contacting Matrox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Appendix B: Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Technical information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Global information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Board input and output connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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Digital interface connector for the PCI
form factor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Video input interface connectors for the
PC/104-Plus form factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
RS-232 input connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Trigger input connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
VMChannel interface connector . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
DIP switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Appendix C: Listing of Matrox Meteor-II /Digital
Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Revisions of Matrox Meteor-II /Digital . . . . . . . . . 70
Appendix D: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Index
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Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter outlines the key features of the Matrox
Meteor-II /Digital board.
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8 Chapter 1: Introduction
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital
Matrox Meteor-II /Digital is a frame grabber used for digital
video acquisition. This board is available in a PCI or a
PC/104-Plus form factor. The diagram for Matrox Meteor-II
/Digital for PCI is shown below.
VIA
VMChannel
PSG
UART
32
32 32
LUT
4 256x8-bit
or
2 4Kx16-bit
RS-232
Drivers
and
Receivers
RX
TX
/RTS
/CTS
RS-422/
LVDS*
Receiver
TTL
Buffers
Data
RS-422
Drivers
&
Receivers
/
LVDS*
Clk input
Clk output
Hsync input
Hsync output
Vsync input
Vsync output
Valid frames/line
Trigger
Exposure timer1
Exposure timer2
Aux 1 input
Aux 2 input
Aux 1 output
Camera CTRL1
Aux 2 output
Camera CTRL2
Camera CTRL3
Trigger Opto-
coupler
Host 32-bit PCI bus
* Matrox Meteor-II is available with either RS-422 or LVDS support.
On separate bracket
Trigger
Exposure timer1
Exposure timer2
100-Pin
Connector
9-Pin Female
Trigger
Connector
9-Pin Male
Connector
RS-232
32
32
Video transfer
memory
(4 MB)
64
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Matrox Meteor-II /Digital 9
The diagram for Matrox Meteor-II /Digital for PC/104-Plus is
the following.
VIA
PSG
32
32
32
LUT
4 256x8-bit
or
2 4Kx16-bit
RS-422/
LVDS*
Receiver
TTL
Buffers
Data
RS-422
Drivers
&
Receivers
/
LVDS*
Clk input
Clk output
Hsync input
Hsync output
Vsync input
Vsync output
Valid frames/line
Trigger
Exposure timer1
Exposure timer2
Aux 1 input
Aux 2 input
Aux 1 output
Camera CTRL1
Aux 2 output
Camera CTRL2
Trigger Opto-
coupler
Host 32-bit PCI bus
* Matrox Meteor-II is available with either RS-422 or LVDS support.
Trigger
Exposure timer1
Exposure timer2
32
Video transfer
memory
(16 MB)
64
32
Two 68-Pin
Connectors
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