Matrox Imaging expands GigE Vision™ solutions with new Matrox Solios GigE
November 7, 2006, Stuttgart, Germany - Today at Vision 2006, Matrox Imaging is pleased to announce the official launch of the company's first interface card for the GigE Vision™ standard. "There is a lot of industry awareness surrounding GigE Vision™ these days, as you would expect when a new promising digital standard emerges for machine vision" says Dwayne Crawford, Product Manager at Matrox Imaging. "And launching the Solios GigE underscores our commitment to our customers, that they will be able to take advantage of the latest technology in the most optimal fashion."
Matrox Solios GigE is a high-performance interface that fully supports the GigE Vision™ standard, while offering superior value over generic NICs. The Matrox Solios GigE is a x4 PCI Express® (PCIe®) short card with 4 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports and a full range of auxiliary on-board I/O. By supporting a trigger input directly on the Matrox Solios instead of relying on the camera, for example, the application will always have the required information to react appropriately at critical points, such as what to do in the event of a missed trigger. Furthermore, on-board I/O eliminates the need to purchase additional boards for integrating the use of rotary encoders and more.
Optional FPGA
For applications that must perform intensive computational operations such as flat field correction, the Matrox Solios GigE offers an optional, configurable FPGA-based processing core that can offload and even accelerate image processing operations from the host CPU. Based on the Altera® Stratix™ family of FPGA devices, the FPGA includes a sizable amount of DDR SDRAM and/or a smaller amount of faster QDR SRAM to maximize the performance of your image processing tasks.
Matrox Solios GigE will be available in Q3 2006. Software support includes the MIL/Active-MIL or MIL-Lite/ActiveMIL-Lite development kits under Microsoft® Windows® XP. Included with these development toolkits are ready-made configurations for the FPGA-based processing core that implement a wide variety of image processing functions. Custom configurations and processing functions can also be created using the Matrox FPGA Developer's Toolkit (FDK) Altera® Edition.
About GigE Vision™
Developed by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), GigE Vision™ is a protocol for video transmission over Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) that is attuned to the needs of scientific and industrial applications. As GbE is based on existing Ethernet standards with extensions, the GigE Vision™ standard includes components for locating a device (i.e., camera) on a network; an XML-based device descriptor for describing a camera's feature set; a control protocol for device/application control; and a streaming protocol for data (i.e., pixel) transmission. More information can be found on the AIA's website: www.machinevisiononline.org/.
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/.
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