Frame Grabbers with Data Forwarding Model

Matrox Rapixo CXP series now includes data forwarding model to distribute demanding processing over multiple PCs

Our Partner Matrox® Imaging reveals the release of a new addition to its renowned Matrox Rapixo CXP series of frame grabbers:

The latest product in this series—the Matrox Rapixo CXP Quad Data Forwarding—combines CoaXPress® 2.0 connectivity with a data forwarding option to help distribute image processing across multiple computers.

The Data Forwarding capability is available on two boards, one offering CXP-6 speed, and the other supporting CXP-12 speed.

Matrox Imaging’s CoaXPress frame grabbers offer very high-rate acquisition while minimizing CPU load. PC-based machine vision systems equipped with a Matrox Rapixo CXP frame grabber can thus deliver higher throughput or perform more demanding processing.

Data forwarding to leverage processing power from multiple computers

This works by relaying images to another computer using four output connections running at up to 12.5 Gbps.

The data forwarding functionality re-transmits all image data prior to being stored in the onboard memory and is accomplished without the involvement of the host computer, minimizing system latency.

Multiple Matrox Rapixo CXP Quad Data Forwarding boards can be used, in a daisy-chain manner, to transfer an image to multiple computers. Each computer can then process a different part of the image or perform different processing on the whole image.