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News Release from: Matrox Imaging | Subject: Odyssey Xpro
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2006
LVDS/RS-422 now supported by Matrox
Odyssey Xpro
Matrox Imaging announced the addition of the conventional digital frame grabber module for its Matrox Odyssey Xpro vision processor.
Matrox Imaging announced the addition of the conventional digital frame grabber module for its Matrox Odyssey Xpro vision processor "The conventional digital frame grabber module is ideal for those applications that cannot be served by Camera LinkCM, even though it is becoming the interface of choice," explains Pierantonio Boriero, Product Line Manager for Matrox Imaging
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 18 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Issues such as transmission over distances greater than 10 metres, camera synchronisation for surface inspection applications, and legacy scientific/industrial cameras and medical imaging systems are resolved with the conventional digital frame grabber module for the Xpro vision processor".
This plug-in module for the Odyssey Xpro supports simultaneous acquisition from up to 4 independent inputs, using a 16-bit wide LVDS or RS-422 interface.
Sampling rates are 65 MHz for LVDS and 32 MHz for RS-422.
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Both frame and line-scan cameras are supported, and inputs can be combined for component RGB, or 2-, 4-, or 8-tap monochrome video sources.
The scalable Matrox Odyssey Xpro is equipped with the 1 GHz Motorola G4 PowerPC embedded microprocessor, and Matrox Imaging's state-of-the-art Oasis processing and router ASIC.
These components deliver over 130 billion operations per second (BOPS).
The single-slot Odyssey Xpro also offers over 5 GB per second of memory bandwidth, up to 1 GB of DDR SDRAM memory and up to 2 GB per second of external I/O bandwidth.
Analog and Camera LinkCM acquisition modules are also available.
All these features, combined with PCI-X bus technology and linearly scalable architecture, provide the Odyssey Xpro with the power and flexibility needed for vision applications today and tomorrow.
The Odyssey software development tools offer developers a choice of application programming interfaces (APIs) and programming models.
The board can be programmed using either the field-proven, hardware-independent Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or the Matrox Odyssey Native Library (ONL), which is compatible with the Matrox Genesis family of vision processors.
Both options come with royalty-free run-time environments.
Developers are provided with high-level algorithms and the ability to distribute workload across multiple boards.
Highly optimised for the Odyssey Xpro's on-board processors, these software libraries are carefully tuned to exhibit low function call overhead, thereby maximising application efficiency and performance.
Developers can either run their application remotely from the host PC, run it entirely on the board itself, or write their own custom functions for the Odyssey's on-board processors.
The Matrox Odyssey Xpro supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
The Matrox Odyssey Xpro with conventional digital frame grabber module will be available in Q3 2003. Request a free brochure from Matrox Imaging ...
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