Utmost performance for a Camera Link? frame grabber
The Matrox Radient eCL frame grabber matches the highest level of
performance offered by the Camera Link? interface standard with support for
the maximum transmission rate beyond the maximum number of ports. The
acquisition of such massive amounts of data is usually accompanied by image
processing operations that can overwhelm the most capable computer. To
address this imbalance, the Matrox Radient eCL features an on-board real-time
processing FPGA device that can be configured to offload and even accelerate
the most compute intensive part of typical image processing applications without
generating additional data traffic within the host computer.

Offload and accelerate repetitive tasks from the host CPU
As image size continues to grow, frame rate steadily increases and applications are
expected to do more, the demands for processing on the host system are escalating.
Alleviating this pressure, the Matrox Radient eCL can offload repetitive CPU
intensive tasks on the Altera? Stratix? III / IV1 FPGA such as spatial and temporal
filtering, gain and offset correction, dead pixel correction, optical and perspective
distortion correction, Bayer color interpolation, color space conversions and
frequency domain transformations, freeing valuable processing resources for the
rest of the application and accelerating the application. The operations performed
on-board are controlled through the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) application
development software.