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MuTech announces low cost color/monochrome frame grabber!

(Billerica, MA September 1998) – MuTech Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high accuracy, high quality, leading edge video capture products for machine/industrial vision, robot vision, picture identification, traffic monitoring, image analysis and more. MuTech is pleased to announce the M-Vision 500.

The M-Vision 500 is a low cost, high quality, color/monochrome PCI frame grabber. It is capable of digitizing video and transferring the digital data to system memory or the VGA display in real time. The M-Vision 500 captures composite NTSC/PAL, Y/C or RS-170/CCIR video as well as, non-interlaced video from progressive scan cameras. A trigger input allows detection of an event and generates a interrupt to grab the video. Video is captured at 30 frames per second (NTSC) or 25 frames per second (PAL).

The M-Vision 500 is PCI 2.1 compliant and transfers data at 132 Mbytes/second over the PCI bus either to system memory or directly to the VGA card. Either way, real time display of the video is shown on the VGA monitor. The M-Vision 500 supports scatter/gather under Windows so that addresses can be generated and stored and one interrupt per field/frame is serviced. The M-Vision 500 has a VESA standard Video Interface Port (VIP) that can connect to a compatible VGA card via a ribbon cable. Video is then passed over the VIP and displayed on the VGA without burdening either the processor or the PCI bus.

All boards are supplied with a software utility under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, and Windows NT allowing the user to grab, display, freeze, save (as .tif, .tga, or .bmp), or recall images. TWAIN and MCI drivers are provided for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. A software developer’s kit is available allowing control of all board functions. DirectDraw is fully supported for display and overlay of text and graphics.

List price of the board is $395.00. OEM quantity discounts available.