M-Vision 1000 MuTech PCI Local Bus Video Digitizer

The MuTech M-Vision 1000 PCI Local Bus Video Digitizer is a single slot video digitizer board for the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus. The MV-1000 digitizes standard or nonstandard analog camera video into (8) bits per pixel at rates up to (40) million samples per second. An optional 10-bit version has been manufactured for ultra high quality video applications. The digitized video is stored in on-board VRAM or transferred in real time to system memory and/or the VGA card for display. Up to four cameras may be attached to a single MV-1000.

The optional Digital Camera Interface (MV-1100) supports single ended and differential input from 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit devices. The MV-1100 is an excellent solution for interfacing to the new generation of high speed digital RGB cameras.

The 1 Mbyte VRAM memory of the MV-1000 may be expanded to 4 Mbytes with the optional MV-1200 memory expansion module. The on-board memory is organized as a continuous memory array, that can accept up to 8 K pixels per line.

The PCI bus used by the MuTech M-Vision 1000 has a number of distinct architectural advantages that benefit video image capture when working at high frame rates, high spatial resolution, or high color resolution. These advantages are most clearly understood when contrasted to the alternative PC bus solutions - the ISA bus and VL-Bus.

The M-Vision 1000 has been designed to sustain maximum PCI bus throughput, which on a suitably equipped PC could reach 50 Mbytes per second. And, unlike the VL-Bus, it can do so without contending with the system processor or other high speed peripherals, such as SCSI disk controllers. A final benefit for system integrators using the M-Vision 1000 is that it is truly platform independent, and is compatible with computers using not only Intel, but also Power PC, and Digital Alpha processors.