Product category: VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: Cornerstone (SVME/DMV-712)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 June 2002
Rugged graphics platform
takes more onboard
Cornerstone is the first imaging platform to integrate two high-performance graphics controllers, CPU, PMC expansion and industry-standard X11/OpenGL software on a sinle ruggedised VME card
Cornerstone (SVME/DMV-712) from Dy 4 Systems is the first imaging platform to integrate two high-performance graphics controllers, CPU, PMC expansion and industry-standard X11/OpenGL software on a single ruggedised VME card. Designed for a diverse range of display applications in mission-critical military vehicles such as ground vehicles and combat and surveillance aircraft, Cornerstone can be used to capture and display multiple sources of video with synthetic symbology overlays such as in target tracking and identification, moving map displays and for multifunction flight instrumentation.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 June 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its two completely independent image/graphics channels allow dual displays to be driven from a single module.
A wide range of standard analogue and digital graphics I/O modes is available.
Custom graphics I/O is also easily supported through the sophisticated FPGA implementation found on the Cornerstone card.
Connectivity is simplified by onboard Ethernet, USB, serial and digital I/O ports.
Based on a Motorola PowerPCT7410 processor, with AltiVec technology, Cornerstone tightly integrates dual independent Permedia3 graphics accelerators, featuring hardware anti-aliasing and optimised X11/OpenGL graphics software support.
By offering this high level of CPU and image processing power on a single 6U card, Dy 4 enables its customers to reduce board count and the space required in the chassis, while functionally partitioning their system more logically to match their individual requirements.
The two PMC sites on each Cornerstone card allow for expansion with cards such as Dy 4's PMC-601 for interfacing to legacy MIL-STD-1553 equipment, or the new high performance, two-channel Fibre Channel PMC-643.
Complementing Cornerstone's hardware capabilities are Dy 4's real-time graphics drivers based on the industry-standards of X11 and OpenGL ported to Wind River's VxWorks/Tornado real time operating system.
Like all Dy 4 products, Cornerstone is offered in a variety of both air-cooled and conduction-cooled ruggedisation levels.
Cornerstone will be available from mid-2002.
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