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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: AM 400/x01 dual display video/graphics adapter
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 April 2007
Display product can handle 3D rendering
AM 400/x01 is a high-quality, low-power embedded graphics AMC module supporting a variety of digital flat panel (DFP), CRT or S-Video devices in single or dual display configurations.
Concurrent Technologies announces an AdvancedMC (AMC) dual display video/graphics adapter The AM 400/x01 is a high-quality, low-power embedded graphics AMC module supporting a variety of digital flat panel (DFP), CRT or S-Video devices in single or dual display configurations
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Applications include telecommunications, defence, aerospace and medical markets.
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Depending on the operating system, the AM 400/x01 supports a wide range of single or dual display resolutions and refresh rates for standard and wide-screen formats.
The adapter supports a range of DFP resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz, a range of CRT resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 @ up to 85Hz and S-Video (PAL or NTSC, YC video).
The DFP and CRT outputs are sourced via a DVI-I connector and the S-Video output is sourced via an industry standard S-Video connector.
The AM 400/x01 AMC adapter makes use of the Silicon Motion SM722 3D/2D dual display controller.
The SM722, with 8Mbyte of high-performance on-chip SGRAM, provides good 2D/3D video graphics performance with low power consumption (less than 2W).
The SM722 system I/O interface connects via a PCI to PCI Express bridge to the AMC.1 Type 1 (port 4) connection on the AM 400/x01's AMC fat pipe interface.
The optional onboard 2.5in serial ATA HDD connects directly to the AMC.3 Type S2 (port 2) connection in the AM 400/x01's common options region.
This interface supports transfer rates up to 150Mbyte/s.
The AM 400/x01 is designed in compliance to AMC.0 (including full hot swap and IPMI capabilities) and can operate with an appropriate single board computer AMC module like Concurrent Technologies' PR AMC/33x processor module.
Operating systems supported by these AMC boards include Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, Linux and QNX.
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