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News Release from: Dy 4 Systems | Subject: Insights PMC-704
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 December 2003
PMC doubles the density of
video/graphics systems
The PMC-704 is the first graphics PMC to provide two independent channels, each with video input, overlay and display capability.
The PMC-704 is the newest member of the Insights graphics product family from Dy 4 Systems The PMC-704 is based on the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics processing engine, also known as the M9 chip, and is the first graphics PMC to provide two independent channels, each with video input, overlay and display capability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PMC-704 features the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics chip operating at 250MHz, with a 64Mbyte, 128bit-wide DDR SDRAM frame buffer.
The card provides two completely independent outputs that support analogue monochrome or RGB, LVDS and DVI digital interfaces.
It also provides two independent analogue video input channels and a digital input supporting OpenLDI and FlatLink LVDS digital video standards.
Each live video channel can be independently displayed on any one, or both output displays.
For the first time in a COTS product, real-time video manipulation is achievable to provide high-quality scaling, de-interlacing, and warping for projection onto curved surfaces for use with helmet mounted displays.
By incorporating FPGAs for key functions, Dy 4 is also finding many opportunities for customised versions of the card to address special needs.
Dy 4 partnered with ALT Software to provide a full implementation of industry-standard X11 and OpenGL.
Support is offered for multiple real-time operating systems including VxWorks from Wind River and Integrity from Green Hills Software.
Support for Timesys Linux and LynxOS from LynuxWorks is planned for future releases.
The PMC-704 will be offered in commercial air-cooled, rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled configurations.
Consistent with all Dy 4 products, the PMC-704 is designed to provide all its I/O signals through the backplane connectors of the host single board computer.
Dy 4's PowerPC SVME/DMV-181 and 182 single board computers provide carefully optimised signal routing to support the high bandwidth analogue and differential LVDS/TMDS signals provided by the PMC-704.
The PMC-704 will be available in the first quarter of 2004.
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