FIC a440 Servicehandbuch
Hardware Functional Overview
FIC A440 Series Service Manual
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- Supports 2 to 8 MB of Frame Buffer
- Real Time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 Playback
- Video
- Real Time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 Playback
- Video
Processor
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C Serial Interface
- Integrated 24-bit 230MHz True Color DAC
- Extended Screen Resolutions up to 1600x1200
- Extended Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25/30/43/60 rows
- DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API
- Extended Screen Resolutions up to 1600x1200
- Extended Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25/30/43/60 rows
- DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API
• Graphics Performance
- Sustained 1M polygon/second and 100M pixel/second
- 30fps DVD playback of 9.8Mbps MPEG-2 video with 30% headroom
- Host Based AC-3 decode at only 8% utilization
- 30fps DVD playback of 9.8Mbps MPEG-2 video with 30% headroom
- Host Based AC-3 decode at only 8% utilization
• High Performance rCAD3D Accelerator
- 32-entry command queue, 32 entry data queue
- 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates
- Pipelined Single Cycle Setup/Texturing/Rendering Engines
- DirectDraw
- 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates
- Pipelined Single Cycle Setup/Texturing/Rendering Engines
- DirectDraw
acceleration
- Multiple buffering and page flipping
• DVD
- Hardware Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture for DVD with AC-3
- Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end processing
- Supports full DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke
- Microsoft DirectShow 3.0 native support, backward compatible with MCI
- No additional frame buffer requirements
- Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end processing
- Supports full DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke
- Microsoft DirectShow 3.0 native support, backward compatible with MCI
- No additional frame buffer requirements
• Video Processor
- On-chip Color Space Converter (CSC)
- Dual frame buffer apertures for independent memory access for graphics and
- Dual frame buffer apertures for independent memory access for graphics and
video
- Horizontal/vertical interpolation with edge recovery
- Video Module Interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decoder
- Overlay differing video and graphic color depths
- Display two simultaneous video streams from both internal AGP and VMI
- Video Module Interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decoder
- Overlay differing video and graphic color depths
- Display two simultaneous video streams from both internal AGP and VMI
• Flat Panel Interfaces
- 85MHz Flat Panel interface supports 1024x768 panels
- Support TFT, STN & DSTN panel technologies
- Allows external LVDS or TMDS transmitter for advanced panel interfaces
- Support TFT, STN & DSTN panel technologies
- Allows external LVDS or TMDS transmitter for advanced panel interfaces
• Power Management Support
- Dynamic power down of SDRAM (CKE)
- Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM, AGP, and PCI bus
- PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control
- Suspend-to-DRAM and Self-Refresh operation
- EDO self-refresh and SDRAM self-refresh power down
- 8 bytes of BIOS scratch registers
- Low-leakage I/O pads
- Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM, AGP, and PCI bus
- PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control
- Suspend-to-DRAM and Self-Refresh operation
- EDO self-refresh and SDRAM self-refresh power down
- 8 bytes of BIOS scratch registers
- Low-leakage I/O pads
• Testability
- Build-in NAND-tree pin scan test capability