Matrox 4Sight GPm Installation And Hardware Reference

Matrox 4Sight GPm

Installation and Hardware Reference

Manual no. Y11309-101-0252

July 31, 2017

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Contents

Chapter 1: Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hardware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Motherboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Mass storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Matrox Imaging software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Power management and temperature control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Inspecting the Matrox 4Sight GPm package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Standard items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Additional components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

General warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Manual overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 2: Getting started with your

Matrox 4Sight GPm unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Operating your Matrox 4Sight GPm for the first time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Turni n g o f f the Ma t rox 4Sight GPm unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Rebooting the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Making your own open-wire power supply cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Connecting peripheral devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Connecting video output display devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Connecting a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Networking connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using a PoE device with your Matrox 4Sight GPm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Connecting to the auxiliary I/O interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Connecting external devices to the input signals

of the auxiliary I/O interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using the auxiliary I/O interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Connecting a stereo audio device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Front panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Back panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Rotary decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 3: Adding devices to Matrox 4Sight GPm . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Removing the Matrox 4Sight GPm chassis cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Connecting a mass storage device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Drive assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Installing mini boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Appendix A: Hardware glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Appendix B: Technical reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Motherboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Mass storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Chassis dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Auxiliary I/O interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Characteristics of the auxiliary I/O signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Matrox 4Sight GPm specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Electrical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Pinout descriptions of external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Front panel connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Back panel connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Pinout descriptions of internal connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Mini PCIe connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

mSATA connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

SATA connector for mass storage devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

SATA power for mass storage device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Recovery connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

RS-485 termination connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Appendix C: Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge)

BIOS reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Entering the BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The Menu bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

The Legend window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

The Selection window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

The Item Specific Help window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Default options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Advanced menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Boot Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Peripheral Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

IDE Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Thermal Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Video Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Configuration submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Chipset Configuration submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

ACPI Table/Features Control submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

PCI Express Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Console Redirection submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Dynamic cTDP Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Intel Rapid Start Technology submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

System Information submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Event Log Viewer submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Security menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Power menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Advanced CPU Control submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Boot menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

EFI submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Legacy submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Exit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Overriding the boot-device sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Appendix D: Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail)

BIOS reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

The BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Entering the BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

The Menu bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

The Legend window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

The Selection window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

The Item Specific Help window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Default options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Advanced menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Boot Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

PCI Express Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

USB Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Audio Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Miscellaneous Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Video Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Thermal Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

SATA Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Console Redirection Setup submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

COM A/COM B ISA Serial Dev sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

ACPI Table/Features Control submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

System Information submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Security menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Power menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Advanced CPU Control submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Boot menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

EFI submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Exit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Overriding the boot-device sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Appendix E: Operating system recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Matrox rescue utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Appendix F: Listing of Matrox 4Sight GPm units . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Key feature changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Appendix G: Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

UART copyright information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Index

Regulatory Compliance

Limited Warranty

Chapter

1

Before you begin

This chapter introduces you to the key features of

Matrox 4Sight GPm.

10 Chapter 1: Before you begin

Overview

Matrox 4Sight GPm is a family of self-contained platforms that integrate

processing and display, along with image capture, networking, and general purpose

I/O. You can also extend its capabilities by installing third-party mSATA (mini

SATA) and mini PCIe boards in the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit.

There are two Matrox 4Sight GPm members: Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge)

and Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail).

Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge) Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail)

CPU Choice at purchase (Intel Core i7-3517U, Intel

Core i3-3217UE, or Intel Celeron 1047UE)

Pre-installed (Intel Celeron J1900)

Memory (DDR3 RAM) Choice at purchase (4, 8, or 16 Gbytes) Pre-installed (4 Gbytes)

Mass storage device

1

60-Gbyte mSATA SSD 30-Gbyte mSATA SSD

Networking Gbit Ethernet ports 6 (4 PoE, 2 Ethernet) 3 (2 PoE, 1 Ethernet)

3.0 ports 4 1

2.0 ports 2 2

1. Note that the size of the SSD is subject to change without notice. In addition, Matrox 4Sight GPm only supplies 5 V of power to its SATA power connector. Therefore,

storage devices requiring a 12 V supply are not supported.

Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge)

Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail)

Overview 11

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DVI-D digital

video display

port

bus

DVI-I analog or

digital video

display port

User I/O

(Aux I/O)

port

Intel High Definition audio ports

BIOS

x1 PCIe bus

2 x

SATA

Lanes

Aux I/O

Display

LPC-to-COM

port device

RS-232/RS-485 port

Networking

SDVO

port

SPI bus

1 mSATA

HD port

Storage

I/O

LPC

Up to

5 G /secbits

Thermal

management

Temperature

sensor

SM bus

1 7-pin

SATA HD

port

/

Chips, on motherboard

RAM modules, connected to motherboard

External connectors, on front or back panel of unit

Internal bus

/

Internal connectors, on motherboard

Optional boards, connected to motherboard

Legend

1 mini

portPCIe

RS-232 port

Intel

PCH

Express

chip

DMI

RAM

SO-DIMM

slot

SO-DIMM

slot

Dual memory

channel

Chipset

FDI

RAM:

SO-DIMM

module

RAM:

SO-DIMM

module

Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge) motherboard

CPU

Intel Core

or

Celeron

CPU

4 USB 3.0 ports

2 USB 2.0 ports

4

PoE

ports

2

Ethernet

ports

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DVI-D digital

video display

port

bus

DVI-I analog or

digital video

display port

User I/O

(Aux I/O)

port

Intel High Definition audio ports

BIOS

x1 PCIe bus

2 x

SATA

Lanes

Aux I/O

Display

LPC-to-COM

port device

RS-232/RS-485 port

Networking

SDVO

port

SPI bus

1 mSATA

HD port

Storage

I/O

LPC

Up to

5 G /secbits

Thermal

management

Temperature

sensor

SM bus

1 7-pin

SATA HD

port

/

Chips, on motherboard

RAM modules, connected to motherboard

External connectors, on front or back panel of unit

Internal bus

/

Internal connectors, on motherboard

Optional boards, connected to motherboard

Legend

1 mini

portPCIe

RS-232 port

1 USB 3.0 ports

2 USB 2.0 ports

2

PoE

ports

1

Ethernet

ports

Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail) motherboard

RAM

SO-DIMM

slot

SO-DIMM

slot

Dual memory

channel

RAM:

SO-DIMM

module

RAM:

SO-DIMM

module

Bay Trail

SoC

Celeron

CPU

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Hardware components

This section lists the main hardware components of the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit.

Motherboard

The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard integrates the following:

• Processing. The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard features one of the following

Intel processors:

- Intel Core i7-3517UE processor (Ivy bridge).

- Intel Core i3-3217UE processor (Ivy bridge).

- Intel Celeron 1047UE processor (Ivy bridge).

- Intel Celeron J1900 processor (Bay trail-D).

These processors use processor technologies desig ned to acce lerate mul tim ed ia a nd

imaging applications. They use streaming SIMD extensions (SSE, SSE2, SSE3,

and SSSE4) technology, and EM64T (Intel 64 architecture) technology. These

technologies are an extension to the Intel architecture that address the key

characteristics of applications that must handle large amounts of image, video,

and graphics data.

The Intel Core i3-3217UE, Intel Core i7-3517UE, and Intel Celeron J1900

processors also use Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) technology. The Matrox

Imaging Library (MIL) can use QSV to significantly accelerate image conversion,

compression, and decompression.

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With regards to data flow management:

- The Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy bridge)’s Intel processors use the Intel Platform

Controller Hub (PCH) HM76 Express chipset for data flow management; the

chipset includes specific PCIe interfaces including I/O control as well as display

outputs. The PCH HM76 Express chipset provides better communications

(faster and more intelligent) between the CPU and the PCH than previous

technologies combined with better feature management. provides control for

both I/O and display.

- The Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail)’s Intel processor uses the system on chip

(SoC) for data flow management. The SoC actually includes the CPU (Intel

Celeron J1900 processor) and GFX cores along with I/O, display, PCIe,

memory interface, and storage interface ports (such as SATA) in a single chip.

While more taxing on the CPU than dividing these features amongst a full

chipset, the SoC provides a lower-cost solution with better power management.

• Display. The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard has two video output ports which

allow you to connect either two digital display devices or one digital and one analog

display device to Matrox 4Sight GPm.

In addition, the Intel integrated graphics controller supports 32-bit (true-color)

non-destructive graphics overlay onto live video, for a completely true-color

display.

• Mini-PCIe slot. The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard has a connector for a mini

PCIe 2.0 board.

• Auxiliary I/O interface. The auxiliary I/O interface is composed of 16

independent auxiliary sink-driver signals; 8 of which can be used to receive

application-specific user input, and 8 of which can be used to transmit

application-specific user output.

• Networking. Matrox 4Sight GPm integrates Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and

Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Each Gigabit Ethernet

interface supports 10 BaseT, 100 BaseT, and 1000 BaseT. Matrox 4Sight GPm

(Ivy Bridge) has 4 PoE and 2 Ethernet ports, whereas Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay

Trail) has 2 PoE and 1 Ethernet port.

Hardware components 15

• Random access memory (RAM). The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard has two

204-pin SO-DIMM slots, each slot supporting a SO-DIMM, unbuffered DDR3

SDRAM module. All Matrox 4Sight GPm units can have one or two identical

memory modules installed.

❖

Note that SO-DIMM are factory installed and are not accessible to the user

because of their location (in the thermal insulating material on the reverse-side

of the motherboard).

• Basic input/output system (BIOS). Flash memory is used to store the BIOS.

• I/O command lists. The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard has two I/O

command lists, each of which allow you to schedule commands to change the state

of a bit of an I/O command register at a specified time or counter value. The state

of the bits can be routed to auxiliary output signals or can be used, for example,

to trigger a timer.

• Integrated rotary decoders. The 2 integrated rotary decoders can decode

quadrature input received from a rotary encoder.

• Timers. The Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard has 16 32-bit timers.

• Serial ports. The 2 serial ports (COM ports) are used to communicate with

RS-232 standard devices. Note that one of the two serial ports can also

communicate with RS-485 standard devices.

• Audio interfaces. One 24-bit stereo audio input connector, and one 24-bit audio

output connector.

• USB interfaces. USB interfaces are available to connect a USB keyboard, mouse,

and printer. Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge) has 6 USB interfaces (4 USB 3.0

and 2 USB 2.0), whereas Matrox 4Sight GPm (Bay Trail) has 3 USB interfaces

(1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0).

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Mass storage

A mass storage device, such as a hard disk drive, can be connected to the internal

SATA 7-pin connector, the mini-SATA (mSATA) connector, or the mini PCIe

connector. Matrox 4Sight GPm is shipped with an mSATA-connected solid state

drive (SSD). The size of the SSD is subject to change without notice, and differs

by product. Matrox 4Sight GPm only supplies 5 V of power to its SATA power

connector. Therefore, storage devices requiring a 12 V supply are not supported.

❖ Note that a mini PCIe board and an mSATA board will fit in each other’s

connector; but will only work if they are in their own connector.

Chassis

The Matrox 4Sight GPm chassis encloses the Matrox 4Sight GPm motherboard,

a SATA-connected storage solution, SO-DIMM memory modules. Mounting

points on the chassis allow the unit to be secured to other equipment.

Operating system

The Matrox 4Sight GPm unit uses Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard

(WES) 7 (64-bit version). Both the 64-bit and 32-bit WES 7 recovery OS images

are included.

❖ Note that if you try using any other operating system, there might be driver issues

(for example, driver issues with USB devices). Refer to the documentation

accompanying the operating system for more information.

Matrox Electronic Systems designed the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit for a specific

use (such as, creating and installing software to process images). You may only use

the operating system and associated software on the unit for that use.

You may use other programs with the operating system as long as the other

programs:

• directly support the manufacturer's specific use for the device, or

• provide system utilities, resource management, or anti-virus or similar protection.

Matrox Imaging software 17

Software that provides consumer or business tasks or processes might not run on

the device. This includes email, word processing, spreadsheet, database,

scheduling and personal finance software. The device can use terminal services

protocols to access such software running on a server.

If you acquired the operating system and associated software on the unit, or on a

disc or other media, a genuine Certificate of Authenticity label with a genuine

copy of the software identifies licensed software. To be valid, this label must be

affixed to the device, or included on or in Matrox Electronic Systems' software

packaging. If you receive the label separately, it is not valid. You should keep the

label on the device or packaging to prove that you are licensed to use the operating

system and associated software.

The Microsoft operating system and associated software was designed for systems

that do not require fail-safe performance. You may not use the Microsoft operating

system and associated software in any device or system in which a malfunction of

the software would result in foreseeable risk of injury or death to any person. This

includes operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication

systems and air traffic control.

Matrox Imaging software

Matrox 4Sight GPm can be used with one or more Matrox Imaging products that

support the unit. These are the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and its derivatives

(for example, MIL-Lite, Matrox Capture Assistant, and Matrox Design Assistant).

All Matrox software is supported under the version of Windows installed on your

unit.

Matrox Design

Assistant

The Matrox Design Assistant package is a flowchart-based, Windows program

that integrates a development environment for Matrox 4Sight GPm. It allows you

to create an imaging application without writing a single line of code. Application

development is visually a step-by-step approach, where each step is taken from an

existing toolbox and is configured through a series of dialog windows. An

application developed with Matrox Design Assistant can be deployed locally (on

the same computer as that used for application development) or remotely. Once

the project is built and deployed, it can run without the Matrox Design Assistant

interface being installed on your development computer.

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With Matrox Design Assistant, you can:

• Create your project as a series of steps using a flowchart.

• Test your project from your computer without any additional code editors or

compilers and without deploying (copying and running) your project on the target

computer (for example, Matrox 4Sight GPm).

• Design and layout a web page (operator view) to receive operator input and to

display your project's output.

• Run, terminate, and re-run the project on your target computer from within

Matrox Design Assistant.

Imaging projects can:

• Grab images from your camera or use images from disk.

• Analyze images using several industry-proven image analysis and measurement

tools (for example, code and geometric model finder tools).

• Send and receive user-defined signals from the I/O port of your

Matrox 4Sight GPm.

• Send and receive information from the serial port of your Matrox 4Sight GPm.

• Send and receive information and save images across the network using TCP/IP,

Modbus, or Ethernet/IP protocols.

• Communicate with industrial robots to offer an integrated machine vision

solution.

MIL MIL is a high-level programming library with an extensive set of optimized

functions for image capture, processing, analysis, transfer, compression, display,

and archiving. Image processing operations include point-to-point, statistical,

spatial filtering, morphological, geometric transformation, and FFT operations.

Analysis operations support camera calibration, are performed with sub-pixel

accuracy, and include pattern recognition (normalized grayscale correlation and

Geometric Model Finder), blob analysis, edge extraction and analysis,

measurement, image registration, metrology, character recognition

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(template-based and feature-based), code recognition and verification (1D, 2D,

and composite code types), bead inspection, 3D reconstruction and analysis, and

color analysis.

MIL applications are easily ported to new Matrox hardware platforms and can be

designed to take advantage of multi-processing and multi-threading

environments.

MIL-Lite MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL functions for image

acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving. It also allows you to perform

processing operations that are typically useful to pre-process grabbed images.

Matrox Capture

Assistant

Matrox Capture Assistant is a tool that allows you to rapidly test and evaluate the

performance of virtually any GenICam-compliant device using MIL. GigE Vision

and USB3 Vision devices are currently supported. It can also be used to configure

Host controller settings (such as network adapters) and Matrox-specific

configuration. The tool has three main sections, each occupying a specific page

or tab.

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Power management and temperature control

ACPI technology Matrox 4Sight GPm is compliant with advanced configuration and power

interface (ACPI) technology. This technology monitors how the BIOS, operating

system, and peripheral devices communicate with each other about power usage.

ACPI allows the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit to conserve energy by transitioning

unused devices into lower power states. ACPI components gather information

about power consumption from the unit and pass this information onto the

operating system. The operating system then manages power to the unit’s different

components on an as-needed basis.

The ACPI features implemented in the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit include:

• The ability for the unit to perform a complete shut-down, in which it will be

powered off automatically.

• Support for an S4 sleeping state, for which the operating system can be enabled

or disabled to automatically wake the unit from hibernation mode.

• Support for processor power management.

• Support for temperature management using passive cooling techniques.

The Intel Core i3 and i7 processors use the “configurable TDP” (cTDP)

technology to dynamically reconfigure the thermal envelope of the processor,

based on the environmental temperature. In case of extreme ambient temperature,

the power will automatically reduce its overall consumption.

Enhanced Intel

SpeedStep

technology

The Intel Core i3, i7, and Celeron processors use Enhanced Intel SpeedStep

technology (EIST) to enable very high performance while also meeting the

power-conservation needs of the Matrox 4Sight GPm unit. The operating system

dynamically adjusts processor voltage and core frequency (CPU speed) based on

the CPU’s demand for processing power. This results in decreased average power

consumption and decreased average heat production.

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