What other new product introductions reflect where Matrox is headed with its machine-vision technology?
The media in this industry keep predicting the death of the frame grabber, but customers are continuing to buy frame grabbers in record numbers. But even so, we’re developing products that solve current technical issues. The Matrox Solios GigE frame grabber is a good example. Not only are we supporting a digital interface with great potential, but we’re including unique features. Sure, developers can use a standard network interface card for a camera, but managing thousands of packets and reconstructing images can tax your system’s resources. We’ve designed the Matrox Solios GigE to handle packet management and image reconstruction, so that the PC can take care of the image processing, which is the important part of the application. But more than that, the Matrox Solios GigE offers other machine-vision-specific features, such as color space converters, look-up tables, processing FPGAs, general-purpose I/O and long life cycles. These are features that standard consumer-based interface s
