May 9, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts - Today at The Vision Show East, Matrox Imaging is announcing the Matrox FPGA Developer's Kit for directly programming the FPGA devices found on Matrox Imaging hardware. "Images are unabashedly growing in size and depth, and we are seeing a surging demand for pixel pre-processing and fast algorithms," says Dwayne Crawford, Product Manager, Matrox Imaging. "For processing-intensive vision applications, today's FPGA devices offer excellent performance for off-loading or accelerating image processing tasks from the host PC."

The Matrox FDK is intended for use with the Matrox Solios frame grabber family and the Matrox Odyssey Xpro+ vision processor. With the new FDK, our customers have at their disposal a library of ready-made Matrox design components, Matrox productivity tools, and an optional Matrox-specific version of Altera® Quartus® II 5.1 for Windows® 2000/XP. The package facilitates the FPGA configuration process in order to optimize application performance; developers have complete control over selecting the image processing functionality that can be off-loaded or accelerated from the host.

Matrox Solios and Matrox Odyssey Xpro+ feature the Altera® Stratix™ and Altera® Stratix® II families of pin-compatible FPGA devices, respectively.

Matrox FDK will be available by the end of Q2 2006.