January 30, 1996, Photonics West '96 (Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA – Today Matrox announced the Matrox Pulsar-LC, an advanced, flexible PCI grabber providing analog and digital acquisition and real-time transfers. Matrox Pulsar was designed specifically for imaging applications that require powerful acquisition and transfer with no display. Matrox Pulsar-LC is now available. This newest addition to our hardware line is a lower-cost version of the Matrox Pulsar, an extremely successful frame grabber that has been widely recognized as having the best price/performance in the industry since its introduction in May 1995.

Matrox Pulsar-LC captures from non-standard video sources such as high resolution frame scan cameras at resolution up to 1K x 1K x 8-bits at 30 frames per second or the equivalent. The board digitizes 8 or 10-bit data at up to 45 MHz. For digital acquisition, it comes standard with 16-bit TTL interface; an optional module is available for up to 16-bit RS-422 data. This frame grabber also features programmable gain, offset, references, synchronization and control; as well as an external hardware trigger and exposure control. The Matrox Pulsar-LC is a PCI bus master for transfers of up to 60 MB/second to system RAM.

Matrox Pulsar-LC comes with a 'C' development library for board control that supports Windows 3.1x, Windows NT, 32-bit DOS extenders and Windows 95. MIL, an extensive imaging library, is sold separately. Device-independent MIL contains highly-integrated commands for image processing, blob analysis, pattern matching, gauging and OCR (optional). Developers can build powerful, cost-effective imaging systems by combining Matrox Pulsar-LC and MIL running on the host.

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