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MuTech announces 16 bit RS-422 digital camera interface for the PCI bus!

 (Billerica, MA August 1998) – MuTech Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high accuracy, high quality, leading edge video capture products for machine/industrial vision, robot vision, medical imaging, image analysis and more.

MuTech is pleased to announce the M-Vision 1500 a 16-bit digital PCI bus frame grabber designed for high resolution/high speed digital area and line scan cameras. Pixel depths of 8/10/12/14/16 are supported. 8 bits can be selected and displayed in real time on the VGA monitor. The M-Vision 1500 can operate as a master or slave on the PCI bus and can achieve over 50 Mbytes per second sustained transfer speed in master mode. Unlike some frame grabbers, the M-Vision 1500 does not lose lines under a heavy system load. The M-Vision 1500 can be easily programmed to interface to a wide range of digital cameras by loading a configuration (.ini) file.

The M-Vision 1500 interfaces to a wide range of digital video cameras at rates up to 40 million pixels per second. The digital video is stored in on-board VRAM or transferred in real time to system memory and/or the VGA card for display. Detailed application notes are available for cameras such as EG&G, Kodak, Hitachi, Dalsa, DVC, Temet, Optisense and Pulnix.

List price of the M-Vision 1500 is $1,000.00. OEM quantity discounts available.