September 29, 1998, Montreal, Canada - Matrox Imaging today announced availability of the Matrox Meteor-II/Digital PCI frame grabber, enabling cost-effective, digital vision systems for machine vision and medical imaging applications.

Vision system developers with applications that require color/monochrome line or area scan digital cameras for high-quality image capture can interface them to PCs using the low-cost Matrox Meteor-II/Digital frame grabber, without sacrificing features, performance or functionality.

"With the Matrox Meteor-II/Digital frame grabber, we've reached a new price/performance level for interfacing to digital output cameras," said Pierantonio Boriero, Product Line Manager for Matrox Imaging. "OEMs and integrators can affordably step into the world of high-quality digital vision systems".

Two models of the Matrox Meteor-II/Digital frame grabber are available to support RS-422 and LVDS digital signaling standards, image data acquisition at up to 40 MHz by 32-bits wide and data transfer rates to host memory at up to 130 Mbytes/second. A custom Video Interface ASIC (Matrox VIA) for pixel reformatting handles real-time image reconstruction from multitap cameras and 4 Mbytes of on-board memory is available to deal with lengthy PCI bus latency.

LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) has advantages over the RS-422 digital signaling standard that include faster data transfer rates from camera to PC and the ability to use longer cables.

An integral part of a Matrox Imaging solution is the extensive software available. 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.

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