Hardware functional overview – FIC A360 User Manual

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Hardware Functional Overview

Integrated Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator

• Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA)

• 8 to 32 MB frame buffer using system memory

• Floating point triangle setup engine
• Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture

• 8M triangles/second setup engine

• 140M pixels/second trilinear fill rate

• Full internal AGP4X performance
• S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC™)

• Next generation, 128-bit 2D graphics engine

• High quality DVD video playback

• Flat panel monitor support

• 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920x1440

3D Rendering Features

• Single pass multiple textures

• 8-bit stencil buffer

• 32-bit true color rendering
• Specular lighting and diffuse shading

• Alpha blending modes

• Massive 2K x 2K textures

• MPEG-2 video textures

• Vertex and table fog
• 16 or 24-bit Z-buffering

• Sprite anti-aliasing, reflection mapping, texture morphing, shadows, procedural textures

and atmospheric effects


Motion Video Architecture

• High quality up/down scalar

• Planar to packed format conversion

• Motion compensation for full speed DVD playback
• Hardware subpicture blending and highlights

• Multiple video windows for video conferencing

• Contrast, hue, saturation, brightness and gamma controls

• Digital port for NTSC/PAL TV encoders

Advanced System Power Management Support

• Dynamic power down of SDRAM

• Independent clock stop controls for CPU/SDRAM, AGP and PCI bus

• Low-leakage I/O pads

Full Software Support

• Drivers for major operating systems and APIs

• North Bridge/Chipset and Video BIOS support





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