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Chapter 1: Before you begin
Available separately
The following items are available separately.
• Matrox I/O Breakout Box. This open enclosed-board contains several wire
terminal blocks, switches, and push buttons. It is designed to provide a means to
connect third-party devices to your Matrox Iris GTX in a development
environment or production floor.
• M12-CBL-PWR/3, an open-wire digital I/O and power cable. On one end is an
M12 12-pin (male) connector. The other end consists of 12 separately-colored
wires. This cable is meant to connect your Matrox Iris GTX to your
Matrox I/O Breakout Box, or to obtain power and to connect with third-party
digital I/O devices. For more details about this cable, refer to the Digital I/O and
power connector subsection of the Matrox Iris GTX connectors section, in
Appendix B: Technical reference.
• M12-CBL-ETH/5, a 100/1000 BaseT Ethernet cable with an M12 8-pin (male)
X-coded connector on one end and an RJ-45 registered jack on the other. For
more details about this cable, refer to the 100/1000 BaseT Ethernet connector
subsection of the Matrox Iris GTX connectors section, in Appendix B: Technical
reference. This cable is meant to connect your Matrox Iris GTX to another
computer or network device.
• GTR-CBL-VGAUSB, a VGA and USB cable with an M12 12-pin (female)
connector on one end and a HD-15 (female) connector and a USB connector on
the other end. For more details about this cable, refer to VGA/USB connector
subsection of the Matrox Iris GTX connectors section, in Appendix B: Technical
reference. This cable is meant to connect your Matrox Iris GTX to a display device
and a USB device (such as, a keyboard or mouse).