Matrox Radient eV overview

See also

User Guide:

Using MIL with GenICam

Reference:

MdigAlloc MdigControlFeature MdigInquireFeature

Matrox Radient eV is a family of two high-performance PCIe frame grabbers:

Matrox Radient eV-CL. Matrox Radient eV-CL supports image capture from up to 4 video sources that use the Camera Link (CL) communication standard, depending on the version. There are 4 versions of Matrox Radient eV-CL available: Matrox Radient eV-CL DB, Matrox Radient eV-CL QB, Matrox Radient eV-CL SF, and Matrox Radient eV-CL DF.
Matrox Radient eV-CXP. Matrox Radient eV-CXP supports image capture from up to 4 high-resolution, high-speed video sources that use the CoaXPress (CXP) communication standard. There are 3 versions of Matrox Radient eV-CXP: Dual CXP-6, Quad CXP-6, Quad CXP-6 for 3D profiling.

Matrox Radient eV supports frame and line-scan, monochrome and color video sources. The color video sources can be RGB video sources or video sources with a Bayer color filter. Matrox Radient eV can decode Bayer color-encoded images and perform color space conversions while transferring the images to the Host. In addition, it can vertically or horizontally flip them and perform subsampling.

Matrox Radient eV-CL supports up to 4 Base or 2 Full/80-bit mode Camera Link connections, depending on the version of the board, as well as providing Power-over-Camera Link (PoCL) support.

Matrox Radient eV-CXP supports up to 4 independent CoaXPress connections, allowing simultaneous image capture from up to 4 video sources that transmit data at different CoaXPress speeds (up to 6.25 Gbits/sec). Alternatively, using link aggregation, the frame grabber can receive image data at up to 25 Gbits/sec from a single video source. Matrox Radient eV-CXP provides up to 13 W of power per CoaXPress connection to any device that supports power-over-CoaXPress (PoCXP).

Summary of Matrox Radient eV features

The following table outlines the features currently available for Matrox Radient eV.

	Matrox Radient eV-CL	Matrox Radient eV-CXP
Can access GenICam camera features using MdigControlFeature() / MdigInquireFeature()	Yes ¹	Yes
On-board memory ³	1 Gbyte	1, 2, or 4 Gbytes
Processing FPGA	No
Digitizer LUTs	8- and 10-bit (1/digitizer) or 12-bit (shared) ²
Asynchronous camera reset support	Yes
Acquisition section	Camera Link	CoaXPress
Number of acquisition paths	4 (QB), 2 (DB, DF), 1 (SF)	2 (Dual), 4 (Quad)
Number of auxiliary signals	32 (4 in, 1 out, and 3 in/out per I/O connector)	32 shared (4 in, 1 out, and 3 in/out per I/O connector)
Number of timers	2/digitizer	4 shared
Number of quadrature decoders for input from linear or rotary encoders	1/digitizer	4
Number of supported triggers	4/digitizer	28 shared
Number of CoaXPress trigger signals	None	1/digitizer
Number of UARTS	1	0
Number of data latches	16/digitizer (allocated using M_DEV0 or M_DEV1 only)

¹ Only if the camera supports GenICam. For more information, refer to the Using GenICam with Camera Link cameras subsection of the Using MIL with GenICam section of Chapter 25: Grabbing with your digitizer.

² When performing a color grab, one 12-bit LUT is used.

³ Matrox Radient eV has 128 Mbytes of acquisition memory mapped onto the PCIe bus. You can use a Host pointer to access this memory, or you can access it directly from another PCIe bus master; this memory is referred to as shared memory.

Note on nomenclature

This manual refers to all versions of the board as Matrox Radient eV. Matrox Radient eV-CL refers to Matrox Radient eV-CL SF, Matrox Radient eV-CL DF, Matrox Radient eV-CL DB, and Matrox Radient eV-CL QB versions. Matrox Radient eV-CXP refers to Dual CXP-6, Quad CXP-6, and Quad CXP-6 for 3D profiling. When necessary, this manual distinguishes between the Matrox products using their full names.