Matrox Radient eCL
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Matrox Radient eCL High-performance Camera Link® frame grabber with FPGA-based processing offload. Benefits Offload and accelerate image processing to free and assist the host CPU using an Altera® Stratix® III / IV1 FPGA Optimize multi-camera applications via support for up to four independent Base (eCL-QB) or up to two Full (eCLDF) Camera Link® cameras per board Perform deterministic image acquisition by way of the jitter-free Camera Link® interface Eliminate lost pixels through a x8 PCIe® host interface and ample on-board buffering Use the highest-rate cameras with available support for 10-taps (eCL-F) at 85 MHz Reduce cabling and eliminate power supplies by way of Power over Camera Link® (PoCL) support Reduce development and validation costs through a managed lifecycle offering consistent long term availability Implement image capture with ease and confidence using Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) application development toolkit Maintain flexibility and choice by way of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows® XP / Vista® / 7 and Linux support Utmost performance for a Camera Link® frame grabber The Matrox Radient eCL frame grabber matches the highest level of performance offered by the Camera Link® interface standard with support for the maximum transmission rate beyond the maximum number of ports. The acquisition of such massive amounts of data is usually accompanied by image processing operations that can overwhelm the most capable computer. To address this imbalance, the Matrox Radient eCL features an on-board real-time processing FPGA device that can be configured to offload and even accelerate the most compute intensive part of typical image processing applications without generating additional data traffic within the host computer. Offload and accelerate repetitive tasks from the host CPU As image size continues to grow, frame rate steadily increases and applications are expected to do more, the demands for processing on the host system are escalating. Alleviating this pressure, the Matrox Radient eCL can offload repetitive CPU intensive tasks on the Altera® Stratix® III / IV1 FPGA such as spatial and temporal filtering, gain and offset correction, dead pixel correction, optical and perspective distortion correction, Bayer color interpolation, color space conversions and frequency domain transformations, freeing valuable processing resources for the rest of the application and accelerating the application. The operations performed on-board are controlled through the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) application development software. Through MIL, a FPGA configuration can be rearranged to perform a required sequence of operations without having to necessarily generate a new FPGA configuration. When the need arises, Matrox’s FPGA design services can be employed to generate an application-specific FPGA configuration.

Matrox Radient eCL Data Clock CC (4) UART Camera Link® Interface with PoCL HDR-26 Data Clock CC (4) UART Camera Link® Interface with PoCL GPIO GPIO Interface DBHD-15M Image Reconstruction Image Reconstruction 512/1024/2048 MB (Up to 5.3 GB/s) Streaming Interface HDR-26 512/1024/2048 MB (Up to 5.3 GB/s) 2/4/8 MB Stream Switch GPIO Interface GPIO 1 Up to 2 GB/s Altera® Stratix® III/IV Processign FPGA (Customizable) Camera Link® Interface with PoCL GPIO GPIO Interface DBHD-15M QDR-II 500 SRAM Image Reconstruction Image Reconstruction 2/4/8 MB Streaming Interface HDR-26 Data Clock CC (4) UART...

Lifecycle managed for consistent long term supply Matrox Imaging not only carefully selected each component in the Matrox Radient eCL to ensure product availability in excess of five years, but also exercises strict change control to provide consistent supply. Longevity of stable supply lets OEMs achieve maximum return on the original investment without incurring the additional costs associated with the repeated validation due to constantly-changing products. Field-proven application development software Matrox Radient eCL is supported by the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL), a comprehensive...

Ordering Information Dimensions and environmental information • Matrox Radient eCL Hardware Part number Description RAD 2G DB 150400* Matrox Radient eCL-DB dual-Base Camera Link® frame grabber with 2 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM, Altera® Stratix® III EP3SL150-C4 processing FPGA and no SRAM. RAD 2G SF 150400* Matrox Radient eCL-SF single-Medium/Full Camera Link® frame grabber with 2 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM, Altera® Stratix® III EP3SL150-C4 processing FPGA and no SRAM. RAD 2G QB 150400* Matrox Radient eCL-QB quad-Base Camera Link® frame grabber with 2 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM, Altera® Stratix® III EP3SL150-C4...