Matrox Meteor-II, 32-bit PCI
Matrox Meteor-II/Camera Link® features a 32-bit PCI bus
master/slave host interface. The bus master mode performs
transfers without requiring continuous host intervention.
Extensive buffering ensures reliable real-time transfer of
incoming image data to host memory even under high bus
latency conditions, which typically occurs in systems with
concurrent image capture, display, graphics, network access,
disk access and general external I/O.
The PCI interface supports image data sub-sampling from
2 to 16 (by decimation) to further reduce required PCI bus
bandwidth. The PCI interface also supports packed or planar
transfers of color or multiple monochrome streams. Acquisition
related events such as start and end of frame/field orsequence
capture can be routed to the host CPU as interrupts to optimize
concurrent acquisition and processing (double-buffering).