Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Progressive Peripherals & Software, USA | Date 1991 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 2026 / 68 |
- realtime digitizer and video processor
- twin board
- video and graphics, DTP, CAD system
- TMS34020 processor
- 40 MFLOPS peak speed at 40 MHz
- 32 bit architecture with 512 byte cache
- TMS34082 coprocessor
- 32 bit math / graphics coprocessor
- 3D vector support and rendering engine
- parallel processing capability
- memory
- 8 MB of 44C251 1 Mb VRAM (two 4 MB banks)
- pixel / bit aligned block transfer rate of 142 Mbits/s
- 8 MB of DRAM for resident applications
- input: RS-170A (composite), CCIR-624 (PAL), and RGB (DB9 Targa Pin Compatible)
- output: RS-170A (composite), CCIR-624 (PAL), externally synchable (genlockable) RGB (DB9 Targa Pin Compatible)
- RGB resolutions
- variable from 320×400 to 1024×1024, in 8 or 32 bits
- 1024×2048 scrollable work area by combining the two buffers
- non-interlaced: 320×400, 320×480, 640×400, 640×480, 512×512, 640×640, 800×600, 800×640, 1024×512
- interlaced: 800×800, 1024×768, 1024×1024
- thousands of other custom resolutions possible
- composite resolution: 768×480 (NTSC), 768×576 (PAL)
- pixel depth: 8 bit or 32 bit, user definable
- horizontal scan rate
- programmable 15.734 kHz (nominal NTSC), 15.625 kHz (nominal PAL)
- range 15-34 kHz
- vertical scan rate
- programmable 30 Hz (nominal NTSC), 25 HZ (nominal PAL)
- range 25-100 Hz
- interlace: programmable 2:1 interlaced, or non-interlaced
- Amiga bus interface: 4×128 kB DMA blocks, directly addressable
- hue, saturation, contrast: software adjustable via digital pots in 256 levels each
- palette
- 16.7 million colours displayable from a palette of 16.7 million
- alternative display of 256 colours from a palette of 16.7 million
- overlay
- 8 bit alpha channel with 16 colour overlay
- alpha channel colour key between buffers
- image capture
- full frame and field capture in 1/30th or 1/60th of a second
- realtime image capture in 24 bits up to 1024×1024 resolution
- grayscale image capture in 256 shades
- multiple resolutions in composite and RGB, up to 1024×1024
- two framebuffers with adjustable resolutions of up to 1024×1024 pixels per buffer in 32 bit colour
- image processing
- bit blitting
- hardware zoom and pan
- dynamic resizing
- runlength encoding
- JPEG compression support
- image enhancement, image recognition, histography, and many other functions built in hardware
- digital video effects: flipping, page turns, colourization, solarization, polarization, up to 8:1 zoom, rotations, picture in picture , live resizing, digital graphic overlay and many realtime 24 bit animation and digital video effects
- SAGE Library: over 200 graphic functions, with 2D and 3D graphic libraries: LINEDRAW, POLYDRAW, CUBICSPLINE, PHONGSHADE, GOURADSHADE, and more.
- fast image loading: NTSC overscan image in less than a second, 1.5 MB 24 bit image in less than 4 seconds
- multiple Rambrandt boards can be linked together to create exceptional virtual reality systems
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