Primagraphics Announces the Bobcat 6U VME Dual Channel Graphics Overlay Generator.CAMBRIDGE, England -- Primagraphics, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., and a leading supplier of radar video and graphics display systems for military and civil applications, has launched Bobcat, a powerful, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), single-slot, 6U VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. dual channel video/graphics overlay generator. Bobcat provides two independent channels to allow incoming video sources to be overlaid with high resolution computer graphics generated directly from Bobcat. The card accepts interlaced Refers to a display system or image that uses interlacing and does not render contiguous lines one after the other. See interlace and interlaced GIF. or non-interlaced monochrome or RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). video signals including the STANAG The NATO term derived from "standardization agreement." See also NATO standardization agreement. 3350 format. For each input channel, the video is digitally overlaid with an internally generated graphics picture at resolutions up to 1024 x 768. The digital video keying supports a number of video mixing modes to support anti-aliased graphics and alpha blending. Bobcat maintains two independent graphics frame stores, one for each channel, with X Windows or Primalib graphics libraries supporting the graphics programming interface. With considerable flexibility in the programming of the video formats, Bobcat is a highly configurable graphics and video solution for video overlay applications. Bobcat is an air-cooled module with all video input and output through the P2 connector. A companion product, Bulldog, offers the same capabilities in a ruggedized, conduction-cooled form factor. Long term support for the Bobcat is provided through Primagraphics' comprehensive COTS+ maintenance contracts, field proven on a number of major military programs. Primagraphics is a recognized leader in the development of processing and display systems for military and civil applications. Its systems, for VME, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , CompactPCI and PMC formats, are in use throughout the world for airborne and shipborne ship·borne adj. Transported by ship. command and control consoles, vessel tracking, air traffic control and air defense systems. Contact Primagraphics in North America by phone on 434 951 9460, by post to 1000 Research Park Blvd., Suite 106, Charlottesville, VA 22911, USA, or by email to: sales@primagraphics.com. |
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