Specifications

8 Chapter 1: Introduction
Matrox Orion
Matrox Orion is a frame grabber, capable of acquiring color and
monochrome images from standard video sources and
displaying them. Matrox Orion is available in both AGP and
PCI versions. You can use Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) or
any of its derivatives to program your Matrox Orion.
Acquisition features
Matrox Orion can acquire video from different types of standard
video sources using its video decoder and its RGB digitization
section. The video decoder path can accept monochrome video
in RS-170/CCIR format, or composite (CVBS) or component
(Y/C) color video in NTSC/PAL format. The decoder can convert
color video streams to BGR32 packed for transfers to Host, and
YUV16 packed (YUYV) for transfers to the display, with either
square pixels or CCIR-601 resolutions. The RGB digitization
section can capture component RGB analog video. Matrox
2:1
MUX
2:1
MUX
2:1
MUX
2:1
MUX
CVBS1/Y1/R1
CVBS2/C1/G1
CVBS3/Y2/B1
CVBS4/C2/S1
CVBS5/Y3/R2
CVBS6/C3/G2
CVBS7/Y4/B2
CVBS8/C4/S2
4:1
MUX
NTSC/PAL
Video
Decoder
RGB
Digitizer
Matrox
G400
Pixel Converter
* The expanded video I/O connector is located on a separate bracket.
** The external trigger can be either TTL or opto-isolated.
*** Only present on the PCI version.
used for both inputs and outputs, and is
Expanded
video I/O
connector*
Expanded
video I/O
connector*
TTL Aux. Input
TTL Aux. Output
Ext. Trigger**
AGP or PCI bus
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/
24
2
2
24
/
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128
32
/
8
/
/
/
8
Frame buffer
(32 Mbytes)
NTSC/PAL
Video
Encoder
/
5
Video
input
TV
output
RorC
GorY
B or CVBS
Sync or CVBS
TTL Sync
VGA output
AGP to PCI
Bridge***