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News Release from: Matrox Imaging | Subject: Matrox Helios XD
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 April 2005
Matrox Imaging has announced Matrox
Helios XD
PCI-X frame grabber offers powerful pre-processing capabilities and LVDS/RS-422 acquisition
This newest member of the Matrox Helios frame grabber family is a 64-bit LVDS/RS-422 frame grabber with powerful pre-processing capabilities Matrox Helios XD fully exploits PCI-X technology to deliver unprecedented video capture rates for a single-board solution and can easily accommodate the most demanding video sources
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 18 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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A custom Matrox Imaging-designed ASIC, found on all Matrox Helios frame grabbers, combines a PCI-X controller with a powerful processor core to alleviate the host CPU from image formatting and pre-processing tasks.
Matrox Helios XD supports four completely independent 16-bit wide inputs.
These inputs can be configured to acquire from two, four and eight-tap monochrome sources as well as RGB sources.
The Matrox Oasis ASIC is the pivotal component on all frame grabbers in the Matrox Helios family.
This high-density chip integrates a Pixel Accelerator, Links Controller and main memory controller.
The Pixel Accelerator (PA) is a parallel processor core that accelerates neighborhood, point-to-point and LUT mapping operations.
It consists of an array of 64 processing elements all working in parallel.
Operating at a core frequency of 167 MHz enables the PA to process up to 2 billion pixels per second.
The Links Controller (LINX) is the router that manages all data movement inside and outside the processing node, which consists of the Pixel Accelerator, CPU and main memory.
It can handle several concurrent video and message streams, thereby offloading data management tasks from the CPU and PA and allowing them to focus on image processing tasks.
With over 30 million transistors, the Oasis also incorporates a 128-bit wide, 167 MHz double data rate DRAM interface that delivers more than 5 GB per second of memory bandwidth.
Matrox Helios frame grabbers are programmed with the award-winning, hardware-independent Matrox Imaging Library (MIL).
MIL is optimized for the Matrox Helios frame grabbers' on-board processor, accelerating many image processing functions, thereby enhancing application efficiency and performance.
Matrox Helios XD is supported under Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Helios XD is priced at $2745 US (OEM quantity 1) and is available now. Request a free brochure from Matrox Imaging ...
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