Jaton VIDEO-107PCI-3D User Manual

Video-107PCI-3DVideo-107PCI-3D

multimedia accelerator

User Manual

version 3.00

NOTICE

The information in this document is subject to change in order to improve reliability, design, or function without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the company. In no event will the company be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the company. May 1999, Rev. A

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................5

2. FEATURES.....................................................................................................6

2.1 HIGH PERFORMANCE RCADE3D™ ACCELERATOR..............................6

2.2 TRUEV IDEO® SCALING PROCESSOR ........................................................7

2.3 MEMORY INTERFACE.................................................................................8

2.4 CRT INTERFACE..........................................................................................8

2.5 OVERVIEW....................................................................................................8

2.6 SYSTEM FEATURES.....................................................................................9

2.7 HIGH PERFORMANCE 64-BIT 2D GUI.......................................................9

2.8 HIGHLY INTEGRATED RAMDAC

2.9 FULL FEATURE HIGH PERFORMANCE 3D E NGINE..............................10

2.10 TRUEV IDEO® PROCESSOR.....................................................................11

2.11 V ERSATILE FRAME BUFFER INTERFACE.............................................12

2.12 HI-RES AND HI-REF DISPLAY SUPPORT .............................................12

2.13 CRT POWER MANAGEMENT (VESA DPMS)......................................12

2.14 COMPLETE HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY.........................................13

3. CHECK LIST ...............................................................................................13

4. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS......................................................................13

5. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION....................................................................13

& CLOCK SYNTHESIZER .......10

6. HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................14

6.1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURES.................................................................14

6.2 STEPS: .........................................................................................................15

7. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................15

7.1 MICROSOFT WINDOWS®98.....................................................................15

7.1.1 Microsoft Windows®ME................................................................17

7.1.2 Microsoft Windows® NT™4.0......................................................18

7.1.3 Microsoft Windows2000/XP......................................................20

8. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE......................................................................20

8.1 TIPS..............................................................................................................23

8.2 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ).............................................23

9. VIDEO MODE TABLE................................................................................25

9.1 STANDARD MODES...................................................................................25

9.2 E XTENDED MODES...................................................................................26

10. PINOUT AND SYNC FREQUENCIES ...................................................29

10.1 ANALOG COLOR DISPLAY PINOUTS (DB 15)......................................29

10.2 CONVERSION TABLE: PIN ADAPTERS.................................................29

10.3 9-TO-15 PIN CONVERSION TABLE.........................................................30

10.4 ANALOG V IDEO SIGNALS.......................................................................30

11. FCC SHIELDED CABLE WARNING......................................................30

11.1 TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................31

11.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ............................................................................32

12. LIMITED WARRANTY...........................................................................32

12.1 OTHER LIMITS.........................................................................................32

12.2 E XCLUSIVE OBLIGATION.......................................................................33

12.3 OTHER STATEMENTS............................................................................33

12.4 TERMS AND CONDITIONS......................................................................33

12.5 SERVICES AGREEMENT :..........................................................................34

12.6 E NTIRE OBLIGATION..............................................................................34

13. REDUCING WARRANTY CLAIM REJECTIONS................................34

1. Introduction

The Video-107PCI -3D brings to the PC unparalleled price/performance 3D graphics. With rCADE3D™ acceleration for pipelined single cycle graphics engines, 3D games can now take advantage sideband addressing.

The Video 107PCI integrates the advanced rCADE3D™ 3D/2D Accelerator with graphics, video, and digital TV into a single chip solution. The rCADE3D™ combines advanced per pixel 3D setup and rendering with 2D graphical user interface (GUI) acceleration. For high-speed low latency access, the Video-107PCI -3D fetches textures stored in up to 8Mbytes of local memory.

The Video-107PCI -3D is a highly integrated display control device that incorporates a 64-bit 3D/2D graphic engine and video accelerator with advanced video capability. It provides a flexible and high performance solution for graphics and video playback acceleration for various color depth and resolution modes.

The Video-107PCI -3D supports a video playback, or decompressed video streams to be overlaid with a graphics stream of mixed color depth displays.

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2. Features

2.1 High Performance rCADE3D™ Accelerator

• Single Cycle Pipelined Engine

• Per Pixel Mip-Mapping

• Multiple Levels of Details (LOD)

• 1/16

• 32-bit Color Rendering

• Perspective Correct Textures

• 4Kbyte Texture Cache

• DirectDraw™ acceleration

• Multiple Buffering

2.1.1.1.1 Setup Engine

Sub-Pixel Precision

− 32-bit IEEE Floating Point Input Date

− Slope and vertex calculations

− Back Facing Triangle Culling

− 1/16 Sub-Pixel Positioning

− Deep Command List

− Flexible Vertex Buffers

− Triangle Strips and fans

2.1.1.1.2 Rendering Engine

− Gourard and Flat Shading

− Scene Anti-Aliasing

− OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth

cueing

− 16-bit Z-buffer

2.1.1.1.3 Texturing Engine

− Anistropic, Tri-Linear, Bi-Linear, point-Sampled

Filtering

− Mip-Mapping with 11 Levels-Of-Detail

− Perspective Correction

− Color Key and Alpha Blending

− 8-bit per pixel Palletized Textures

− 16/32-bit per pixel Non-Palletized Textures

− Texture Special Affects: Mirror, Clamp, Warp

− DirectX 6 Texture Compression

2.1.1.1.4 2D GUI Engine

− 8/15/16/24/32-bit per pixel color formats

− 256 Raster Operations (ROPs)

− DirectDraw

acceleration

− BitBLTs, lines, polygons, fills, patterns, clipping,

bit masking

− Panning, scrolling, clipping, color expansion,

sprites

− 32x32 and 64x64 Hardware Cursor

− DOS graphics and text modes

2.2 TrueVideo® Scaling Processor

• Horizontal & vertical interpolation using Trident Edge

Recovery Technique (TERT)

• Edge smoothing

• Dual frame buffer apertures

• Vertical Blank Interval for Intercast

• Overlay different video and graphic color depths

• Two scalers and color space converters (CSC) for

independent windows

2.3 Memory Interface

• 2/4Mbyte Frame Buffer

2.4 CRT Interface

• DDC2B

• VESA

2.5 Overview

The Video-107PCI -3D is a SGRAM/SDAM based, fully integrated CRT and TV 64-bit 2D/3D Accelerator for PCI systems. It is a high performance chip, offering high-speed 3D image processing in full compliance and compatibility with IBM® VGA and VESA™ extended VGA.

The Video-107PCI-3D, equipped with single-cycle 3D GUI Engine, pipelines 3D rendering process architecture in hardware, providing real-time interactions with solid 3D models in CAD/CAM, 3D modeling, and 3D games. It supports all key 3D rendering operations, including: Gouraud shading for smooth object surfaces, texture mapping for realistic object textures, 16-bit hardware Z-buffering for fast 3D depth calculations, and Alpha Blending for transparency effects.

Video-107PCI -3D ‘s highly innovative design, a full 64-bit memory interface with the high performance graphics engine, dramatically improves GUI functions and significantly promotes overall system operation.

DPMS

The Video-107PCI -3D supports planar video format for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and video playback. Advanced features of the Video-107PCI-3D, such as color space conversion, Video Module Interface (VMI), a 24-bit True Color DAC, and triple clock synthesizers allowing performance at peak levels.

2.6 System Features

The Video-107PCI -3D’s main system features include:

• High Performance single cycle GUI

• Highly Integrated RAMDAC™ and Triple Clock

Synthesizer

• Full Feature High Performance 3D Graphics Engine

• Hardware implementation of motion compensation

• TrueVideo® Processor

• DirectDraw ™ and DirectVideo™ Hardware Support

• Flexible Frame Buffer Memory Interface

• Advanced Mobile Power Management

• CRT Power Management (VESA™ DPMS)

2.7 High Performance 64-bit 2D GUI

The 64-bit graphics engine of the Video-107PCI -3D significantly improves graphics performance through specialized hardware that accelerates the most frequently used GUI operations and matches the high-speed requirements of CPUs. Functions directly supported in hardware include: BitBLTs, image and text transfer, line draw, short stroke vector draw, rectangle fills, and clipping.

The graphics engine supports 256 Raster Operations (ROPs) for up to 32-bit packed pixel graphic modes. The ROP3 Processor in the Video-107PCI -3D is able to perform Boolean functions which allow many additional operations, including transparency, pattern masking, color expansion alignment, and pattern enhancement. Additionally, the graphics engine features linear display memory addressing, accelerated color expansion modes for graphics text procession, and memory-mapped I/O registers on the graphics engine for faster access time.

A 64-bit internal data bus and a four-color hardware cursor/pop-up icon, operating up to a 128x1128x2 pixel

image, which off-loads the CPU, optimize graphic functions. The hardware cursor mechanism can also be used to display patterns stored in the system memory. This pop-up icon is very useful to display user-friendly information instantly through simple hot key operations.

This advanced function combination allows significant performance increases over standard Super VGA designs and provides outstanding graphics acceleration on GUIs, such as Microsoft ® Windows 95.

2.8 Highly Integrated RAMDAC

The highly integrated design of the Video-107PCI -3D offers a “no TTL” solution for cost-effective, high-performance multimedia subsystem designs for the IBM ® PC and compatible notebooks. The 64-bit memory data bus supporting SDRAM and SGRAM memory provides faster data transfer rates for improved system throughput. The Video107PCI -3D has a built-in, high speed RAMDAC™. The RAMDAC™ is composed of one 256x24 and one 256x18 color lookup table and a triple loop frequency synthesizer, providing the read/write timing control for the Frame Buffer Memory and the refresh of the TV/CRT display.

Video processor features include: on-chip hardware Color Space Conversion (CSC) for faster data conversion on the fly, Horizontal/Vertical (H/V) scaling with interpolation, edge recovery algorithm, gamma correction, and overlay control with different color depths from graphics. The Video-107PCI 3D also includes a fully integrated GUI accelerator, read cache, and command FIFO that optimize memory bandwidth and maximize graphics performance.

& Clock Synthesizer

2.9 Full Feature High Performance 3D Engine

The Video-107PCI -3D is equipped with an advanced Graphics Drawing, Single Cycle 3D Graphics Engine that performs premium 3D functions at a high level of more than 1M triangles per second. The 3D engine supports Microsoft ® Direct3D. The 3D Engine is set up to off-load the CPU from major 3D tasks including slope calculation, sub-pixel positioning, and Tri-striping. By balancing 3D pipeline and reducing parameter passing, the Video-107PCI -3D approaches the high levels of performance. The 3D engine is integrated with a triangle set-up engine that sets up triangles according to the input data of triangle vertex and

accomplishes various functions for 3D rendering. Gouraud shading provides smooth shading for colors across surfaces, perspective correction texture mapping to correct texture data based on the perspective, bi-linear texture filtering for interpolating, alpha blending to compensate colors for the opacity of two colors blended, Z-buffering (16bit/24-bit), video texturing to overlay 2D video play-back onto 3D images, fogging to simulate weather effects, palletized texture mapping 8-bit for memory and bandwidth reduction, and anti-aliasing to reduce or eliminate jaggies resulted from alias rendering. The 3D engine also works with the APM system, conserving power while the 3D operations are suspended.

2.10 TrueVideo® Processor

The Video-107PCI-3D, with an integrated Video Display Engine, supports apertures on the PCI bus which enables independent graphic and video data to be transported simultaneously to and from different memory areas and greatly accelerates the performance of both DirectDraw™ and DirectVideo™. The video image is stored in the off-screen memory and is retrieved by the Video Display Processing block for TrueVideo® processing.

With the help of DirectDraw™ acceleration for sprites, page flipping, double buffering, and color keying, TrueVideo® processing is performed by utilizing Trident’s proprietary edge recovery algorithm for sharper line visibility, deinterlacing, anti-tearing, multitap horizontal filtering, dithering, and scaling operations with bilinear interpolation in both horizontal and vertical directions. The linear scaling permits zoom in/out to any size without any restrictions. In addition, the on-chip hardware Color Space Conversion (CSC) accelerates conversion for 16 bit YUV pixels into linear true color 32 bit RGB pixels on the fly. The additional X and Y minifiers are capable of shrinking the video images to any linear fractions, which saves bus bandwidths and memory space. The YUV planar of the Video-107PCI -3D supports a YUV 420 format that can remove redundant video stream decoding procedures. The color and luminance control provided by the Video-107PCI -3D offers color compensations to prevent color distortion for display devices.

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