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Rendition Vérité V1000 Product Brief

Rendition Vérité Graphics Processor

The premier single-chip solution for high-performance, flexible 3D and 2D graphics that provides striking image quality, real-time interaction, and unprecedented realism.

High Performance

• Unmatched 3D rendering capabilities and blazingly fast 2D GUI acceleration

Superior Image Quality

• Unrivaled detail and resolution with advanced filtering

Broad Industry Endorsements

• Selected as Microsoft's Direct3D reference platform
• Recognized by leaders of the electronic entertainment industry as the premier 3D platform
• Development activity with over 25 of the leading ISVs representing over 100 3D titles

A Highly Integrated PC Solution

• A single-chip 3D graphics engine tuned for the PC market providing 3D acceleration, 2D, GUI, and digital video acceleration and VGA

Combined RISC Core and Pixel Pipeline

• Overcomes typical CPU and PCI bus performance bottlenecks
• Provides unmatched performance and flexibility
• Yields higher quality and rendering rates
• Dramatically reduces host processor load
• Adaptable to an evolving marketplace

Optimized Memory Controller

• Achieves full performance from a single bank of 64-bit EDO DRAM
• Single-linear local memory space for frame-buffer, back-buffer, z-buffer and local texture storage

Advanced Rendering Features

• Supports dramatic image quality and exceptional realism
• Perspective-correct bilinear and trilinear-filtered texture mapping
• True color, Gouraud-shading, z-buffering
• Alpha-blending, depth cueing (fog) and other advanced rendering features

Support for 2D GUI and Multimedia Acceleration

• Windows acceleration
• Incorporates control logic for a standard graphics card
• Image scaling with bilinear interpolation and YUV-to-RGB conversion for smooth full-screen, full-motion video playback and video textures

VGA Compatibility

• Assures backward compatibility with DOS applications

Technical Specifications

Performance
 

• 25M textured pixels/sec
• 500K flat-shaded polygons/sec
• 200K textured polygons/sec
• 600K textured polygons/sec using polyspan command*
• PCI bus master DMA transfer of commands and data at up to full PCI bus bandwidth
• 30fps filtered and scaled video playback (320 x 240 YUV source scaled and bilinear filtered to full-screen RGB)

All performance specifications assume perspective correct, sub-pixel accurate, Gouraud shaded, bilinear filtered, MIP mapped, 25 pixel random oriented right triangles displayed in a 640 x 480 16-bit color depth frame buffer. * This specification is cited only as a comparison to competitors whose products cannot do full sub-pixel correct triangle setup.

3D Rendering Features
 

• Complete triangle setup
• Full feature texture mapping with advanced transformation, lighting and view clipping
• Texturing with Gouraud or flat shading
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel positional accuracy
• Alpha blending
• Antialiasing of points, lines and polygons
• Fog
• 32-bit-per-pixel drawing pipeline
• Dithering
• Z-buffering
• Chroma key
• Stereoscopic display support
• Support of many texture formats: 332, 565, 1555, 4444, 8888 in RGB and YUV

Texture Mapping
 

• Correct perspective
• Bilinear and trilinear filtering
• MIP mapping
• Palettized, RGB and YUV textures
• Fast PCI bus master DMA texture transfer
• Digital video textures
• Texture animation, morphing and other effects

2D Features
 

• Comprehensive 2D graphics and Microsoft Windows GUI acceleration
• Color space conversion and filtered image scaling
• 8, 16 and 24 bit color
• Digital video support with filtering

Memory Architecture
 

• 64-bit EDO DRAM memory interface
• 400 MB/sec bandwidth
• Up to 16 MB total memory
• Single unified memory store
• frame buffers
• texture memory
• z-buffer
• RISC microcode
• linear memory model
• Direct host access as linear or paged frame-buffer

Digital Video Acceleration
 

• YUV to RGB conversion
• Filtered image scaling
• MPEG compatible
• X and Y axis interpolation
• Chroma key

Display Interface
 

• Double and triple buffering
• 32 bit RGBA architecture
• Hardware pan
• Stereoscopic display
• 1600 x 1200 x 256 colors @ 75Hz
• 1280 x 1024 x 256 colors @ 85Hz
• 1024 x 768 x 65K colors @ 85Hz
• 800 x 600 x 65K colors @ 85Hz
• 640 x 480 x 16M colors @ 85Hz

Software Support
 

• Windows 3.1
• Windows 95
• Windows NT
• DirectDraw™
• Direct3D™
• RealityLab™ v 4.0
• Heidi(R)
• Speedy3D™
• Creative Graphics Library(R) (CGL)
• 3DR
• Quickdraw and Quickdraw 3D(R) (RAVE) (In Progress)
• Renderware*, Brender*, and Open GL*

*Via Direct3D

Hardware Support
 

• VESA 2.0 compatible
• Chained DMA
• Glueless PCI bus mastering interface
• Dynamic byte order for non-Intel(R) CPUs
• BIOS ROM interface
• 32-bit DAC port
• Rendition digital I/O port
• 240 pin QFP package
• 3.3V supply

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Specifications are subject to change without notice. The information in this document may be superseded by subsequent documents.  

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