FIC A360 service manual Hardware Functional Overview, Integrated Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator

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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