Specifications

40 Chapter 3: Using multiple Matrox Solios boards
Multiple board installation
You can install and use multiple Matrox Solios boards in one computer.
To use multiple Matrox Solios boards, install each additional Matrox Solios board
as you installed the first board (refer to Chapter 2: Hardware installation).
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox Solios boards installed in your
computer; this number is limited by the number of empty slots in your computer
and by the available bandwidth of your PCIe/PCI/PCI-X interface (segment), as
discussed in the next section.
Using MIL-Lite, you have to allocate a MIL system for each board and allocate
the resources of each MIL system. For more information, see MsysAlloc() in the
MIL Reference.
Simultaneous image capture from different
boards
You can simultaneously capture images from video sources attached to different
Matrox Solios boards; however, the number of video sources from which you can
simultaneously capture images is determined by the available bandwidth of your
PCIe/PCI/PCI-X interface (segment). If there is not enough bandwidth, your
boards will drop frames.
Matrox Solios XCL and XA are susceptible to dropping frames because the
PCI/PCI-X bus bandwidth can be shared if you are using multiple boards.
Matrox Solios eCL and eA might have a problem with dropped frames if there are
not at least 4 active lanes on the PCIe connector to the Host (for example, if the
board is connected to a x4 PCIe connector that has only one active lane).
Customers have to verify with the motherboard manufacturer to find out whether
the particular motherboard works efficiently with a x4 PCIe board, such Matrox
Solios eCL.