Matrox Imaging introduces high-quality PCI frame grabber for RGB and monochrome video acquisition with integrated DualHead™ display
October 12, 2000, Montreal, Canada - Combining high fidelity, flexible video capture and display on a single PCI board, Matrox
Corona-II is an all-in-one solution for imaging OEMs and integrators. Designed to capture from standard or variable, analog or digital, monochrome or
component RGB frame scan sources, the Corona-II combines these acquisition capabilities with the award-winning Matrox G400 graphics controller.
The MGA G400 offers an impressive set of features including non-destructive graphics
overlay on live video, support for video-in-a-window with arbitrary video scaling (up or down) and
DualHead display technology - which provides the ability to simultaneously have an independent analog VGA output and
DVI-compliant digital VGA output or an analog VGA output and TV output.
Video capture to on-board display or host memory is controlled by the Matrox VIA - a video interface bridge that
manages real-time acquisition into a temporary frame buffer while, in parallel, streaming image data over the PCI bus at sustained
rates of 130 MBytes/sec without requiring constant host CPU intervention.
Other key features of the Corona-II include:
three discrete 10-bit A/Ds for 10-bit monochrome or 8-bit color (RGB) acquisition
sampling rates up to 40 MHz
configurable LUTs (three 256 x 8-bit or two 1024 x 10-bit)
connect up to two component RGB or six monochrome video sources
24-bit digital interface
trigger input and timer outputs
PCI bus-master
extensive on-board buffering (8 MB) for reliable capture
independent TV output capable of composite, Y/C or RGB NTSC/PAL video formats
power output and RS-232 serial port interface
Software support is available for Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows NT®
4.0 and Windows® 2000, and consists of Matrox Imaging Library (MIL)/ActiveMIL or MIL-Lite/ActiveMIL-Lite development toolkits for
creating custom applications.
About Matrox
Established in 1976 and headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada, Matrox Imaging is a leading designer and manufacturer of PC-based hardware and
software for machine vision, image analysis and medical imaging. For company information, visit About Us.
three discrete 10-bit A/Ds for 10-bit monochrome or 8-bit color (RGB) acquisition
