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Matrox Solios GigE = NIC Interface Card + Framegrabber + FPGA + GigE Vision

Matrox Solios GigE is a high-performance interface that fully supports the GigE Vision standard, while offering superior value over generic NICs. The Matrox Solios GigE is a x4 PCI Express (PCIe) short card with 4 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports and a full range of auxiliary on-board I/O. By supporting a trigger input directly on the Matrox Solios instead of relying on the camera, for example, the application will always have the required information to react appropriately at critical points, such as what to do in the event of a missed trigger. Furthermore, on-board I/O eliminates the need to purchase additional boards for integrating the use of rotary encoders and more.

Optional FPGA
For applications that must perform intensive computational operations such as flat field correction, the Matrox Solios GigE offers an optional, configurable FPGA-based processing core that can offload and even accelerate image processing operations from the host CPU. Based on the Altera Stratix family of FPGA devices, the FPGA includes a sizable amount of DDR SDRAM and/or a smaller amount of faster QDR SRAM to maximize the performance of your image processing tasks.

Software
Software support includes the MIL/Active-MIL or MIL-Lite/ActiveMIL-Lite development kits under Microsoft Windows XP. Included with these development toolkits are ready-made configurations for the FPGA-based processing core that implement a wide variety of image processing functions. Custom configurations and processing functions can also be created using the Matrox FPGA Developer's Toolkit (FDK) Altera Edition.

About GigE Vision
Developed by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), GigE Vision is a protocol for video transmission over Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) that is attuned to the needs of scientific and industrial applications. As GbE is based on existing Ethernet standards with extensions, the GigE Vision standard includes components for locating a device (i.e., camera) on a network; an XML-based device descriptor for describing a camera's feature set; a control protocol for device/application control; and a streaming protocol for data (i.e., pixel) transmission.

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