PCI-X frame grabber offers powerful pre-processing capabilities and LVDS/RS-422 acquisition
April 8, 2005, Montreal, Canada - Today Matrox Imaging announced Matrox Helios XD. This newest member of the Matrox Helios frame grabber family is a 64-bit LVDS/RS-422 frame grabber with powerful pre-processing capabilities. Matrox Helios XD fully exploits PCI-X technology to deliver unprecedented video capture rates for a single-board solution and can easily accommodate the most demanding video sources. A custom Matrox Imaging-designed ASIC, found on all Matrox Helios frame grabbers, combines a PCI-X controller with a powerful processor core to alleviate the host CPU from image formatting and pre-processing tasks.
64-bit LVDS/RS-422 interface
Matrox Helios XD supports four completely independent 16-bit wide inputs. These inputs can be configured to acquire from two, four and eight-tap monochrome sources as well as RGB sources.
Matrox Oasis ASIC
The Matrox Oasis ASIC is the pivotal component on all frame grabbers in the Matrox Helios family. This high-density chip integrates a Pixel Accelerator, Links Controller and main memory controller.
The Pixel Accelerator (PA) is a parallel processor core that accelerates neighborhood, point-to-point and LUT mapping operations. It consists of an array of 64 processing elements all working in parallel. Operating at a core frequency of 167 MHz enables the PA to process up to 2 billion pixels per second.
The Links Controller (LINX) is the router that manages all data movement inside and outside the processing node, which consists of the Pixel Accelerator, CPU and main memory. It can handle several concurrent video and message streams, thereby offloading data management tasks from the CPU and PA and allowing them to focus on image processing tasks.
With over 30 million transistors, the Oasis also incorporates a 128-bit wide, 167 MHz double data rate DRAM interface that delivers more than 5 GB per second of memory bandwidth.
Software
Matrox Helios frame grabbers are programmed with the award-winning, hardware-independent Matrox Imaging Library (MIL). MIL is optimized for the Matrox Helios frame grabbers' on-board processor, accelerating many image processing functions, thereby enhancing application efficiency and performance.
About Matrox Imaging
Established in 1976, Matrox Imaging is a leading designer of PC-based hardware and software for machine vision, image analysis, medical imaging, and video surveillance. Products include frame grabbers, vision processors, imaging platforms, smart cameras, and development software. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Matrox is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Hong Kong. For more company information, visit: www.matrox.com/imaging/en/about/.
For more information, please contact:
Catherine Overbury
Marketing Communications Manager
Matrox Imaging
1055 St. Regis Blvd.
Dorval, Quebec, H9P 2T4
Canada
Telephone: (514) 685-2630 ext. 2459
Fax: (514) 822-6273
catherine.overbury@matrox.com