January 13, 1999, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced that Matrox Genesis scalable vision processors and Matrox Genesis-LC frame grabbers now support the Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) standard for interfacing to digital output cameras.

Image data transfer is up to 40 MHz by 32-bits wide. Single or multiple tap output from line or area scan monochrome or component RGB color cameras is supported, allowing the use of a variety of cameras. Both boards will continue to offer support for the RS-422 and TTL digital signaling standards.

The main advantages with using LVDS over the RS-422 digital signaling standard include faster data transfer rates from camera to PC and the ability to use longer cables.

As with all current Matrox Imaging PCI boards, host interface, incoming pixel reformatting and image reconstruction is handled by a custom Video Interface ASIC called Matrox VIA.

An integral part of any Matrox Imaging subsystem is software support. Matrox offers a field-proven 'C' library called Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) that is optimized for Intel MMX technology, and ActiveX controls (OCXs) called ActiveMIL-Lite, for rapid development of machine vision and imaging applications. Matrox Intellicam, a Windows-based camera configuration utility is bundled with Matrox application development software for quick and easy camera interfacing. An interactive imaging package and application prototyping tool called Matrox Inspector is also available.

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