XMC mezzanine card provides high-end graphics

The XMC-G72 offers 128Mbyte on-chip GDDR3 memory, as well as the low power dissipation of the M72-CSP128 graphics controller from AMD/ATI technology.

Thales has released the XMC-G72, a second-generation dual-head graphics XMC mezzanine card.

The XMC-G72 is suitable for avionics and military applications such as terrain overlay systems, graphic consoles and where rendering of several live video channels is required.

Thales' XMC-G72 is a dual-head graphics XMC mezzanine card suitable for any x8 PCI-express XMC-compliant single board computer.

The XMC-G72 offers 128Mbyte on-chip GDDR3 memory, as well as the low power dissipation of the M72-CSP128 graphics controller from AMD/ATI technology.

The M72-CSP128 graphics controller supports 2D and 3D acceleration as well as DirectX and OpenGL.

The XMC-G72 mezzanine card features dual independent displays through two front connectors.

Both digital DVI and CRT or dual CRT is offered.

The rugged conduction-cooled build version of the XMC-G72 routes the digital DVI video output to the Pn4 rear I/O connector of the mezzanine.

The XMC-G72 interfaces with the single board computer using an x8 PCI-express link that peaks at 2.5Gbit/s, about ten times faster than graphics PMC mezzanine products currently available.

This high throughput interface between the host CPU and the graphics controller significantly improves the performance of applications that intensively use bitmap transfers.

"The combination of the XMC-G72 with the PENTXM2/PENTXM4 makes possible the use, in severe environments, of high-throughput graphics applications that until now were confined to climate-controlled environments".

"The pair's ability to run up to six concurrent live video feeds on the same screen without loading the CPU has raised considerable interest among field deployable surveillance console designers", said Thales Computers' Director of Global Field Application Engineering Joseph Eicher.

Samples of the commercial build version of the XMC-G72 are currently available and the card will be available in volume early in March 2008.

The rugged conduction-cooled version will be available in the second quarter of 2008.

The XMC-G72 is covered by Thales Computers' long-term support program.

This offer brings build-to-print capability to designs based on the board, thanks to a guaranteed multiyear supply of the product beyond its active life, a offering from Thales for Intel and PowerPC processor-based products.

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