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MuTech Corporation

John Morrissey
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email: jmorriss@mutech.com

MuTech announces low cost color/monochrome frame grabber!

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 510.

The M-Vision 510 is a low cost, high quality, 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 RS-170/CCIR, or 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 in real time.

The M-Vision 510 is PCI 2.1 compliant and transfers data at 132 Mbytes/second burst, over 100 Mbytes/second sustained, 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 510 supports scatter/gather under Windows so that addresses can be generated and stored and one interrupt per field/frame is serviced. The M-Vision 510 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. The M–Vision 510 packs 4x8 bit pixels in a 32 bit word transfer.

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 $550.00 and comes with utility software and cable. OEM quantity discounts available. For more Information on all MuTech products, see http://www.mutech.com.