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Dual-channel PMC card offers graphics options

By Warren Webb -- EDN, 7/28/2005

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a dual-channel, high-resolution PMC graphics controller for VME, CompactPCI, and PCI systems. The company based the AtlasPMC/1D on ATI Technologies’ (www.ati.com) Radeon M9 mobile graphics processor, which supports dual 2-D-, 3-D, OpenGL-, and DirectX-compatible displays with as many as 16.7 million colors. The M9 integrates 64 Mbytes of integrated memory, reduced-power features, a video output, and quad-pipeline 2- and 3-D acceleration to reduce host-processor overhead.

Operating in 0 to 70°C environments, the module displays analog-VGA screen resolutions as high as 1920×1200 pixels over both of its front panel connectors, and designers can also configure it to output dual digital-video channels at resolutions as high as 1600×1200 pixels (Picture). The card’s second channel supports NTSC or PAL TV-video-signal output. Curtiss-Wright provides software support for Linux, Windows, and Solaris operating environments. The AtlasPMC/1D sells for $1750 (one).

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, www.cwcembedded.com.