Specifications

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Performance
The video timing parameters supported by the board are as follows:
Analog input
Matrox Solios eA/XA includes the electronic circuitry needed to select, amplify,
filter, and drive the video signal prior to sending it to the analog-to-digital (A/D)
converters.
Matrox Solios eA/XA Quad has four wide-band analog acquisition paths, Matrox
Solios eA/XA Dual has two, whereas Matrox Solios eA/XA Single has one. The
following table describes the video source combinations from which simultaneous,
independent acquisition is supported and the acquisition paths to which they must
be connected:
Maximum
Number of pixels / line (including sync and blanking) 64 K
Number of lines / frame (including sync and blanking) 64 K
Pixel clock for single sampling rate operation 65 MHz
Bandwidth
eA/XA Single 130 Mbytes/sec
eA/XA Dual 260 Mbytes/sec
eA/XA Quad 520 Mbytes/sec
Analog bandwidth (-3 db cutoff frequency) 100 MHz
Configuration
Asynchronous video sources supported
*
Acquisition path
†
0 1 2 3
1 1 4-tap video source 4-tap
2 1 3-tap video source (RGB) and 1 1-tap video source 3-tap 1-tap
3 2 2-tap video sources 2-tap 2-tap
4 1 2-tap video source and
2 1-tap video sources
2-tap 1-tap 1-tap
5 1 2-tap video source and
2 1-tap video sources
1-tap 1-tap 2-tap
6 4 1-tap video sources 1-tap 1-tap 1-tap 1-tap
*. Note that taps expected to come from the same video source can also come from different video sources as long as they are synchronized (gen-
locked). In this case, the grabbed data is stored in separate color bands of the same buffer; the buffer can be in planar format.
†. Note that Matrox Solios eA/XA Single only has acquisition path 0 and can therefore support only 1 tap. Matrox Solios eA/XA Dual only has acqui-
sition paths 0 and 1, and can only support two taps.