2. Summary
Barco – Argus X Terminal – DOC-3265-2 – user's manual – Revision 06 – February-2005
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2.1
Properties
A
RGUS
was designed to control large, modular O
VER
V
IEW
display walls. Its multi-screen capability allows you to
control displays of virtually unlimited size. The display area is one logically connected display. Digital imaging
devices based on modern technologies such as Single LCD, DLP and Poly-Silicon LCD with the highest display
quality are controlled digitally. Digital data transfer is immune to electromagnetic interference and therefore
ensures the display wall picture to be displayed in absolutely distortion free image quality.
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CRT monitors and analog projectors can also be controlled by A
RGUS
,
using the analog output mode of the graphic
cards. Thus, multi-monitor operator stations can be ergonomically designed and easily implemented.
(DLP is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated)
The hardware and software of A
RGUS
is based on world-wide accepted standards. A
RGUS
offers the following ex-
ceptional capabilities:
•
High performance graphics output using the most modern processor and chip technologies
•
Supports current LAN and WAN interfaces
•
Graphic and video outputs in high color quality
•
Video in a window, up and down scaleable up to full-screen
•
Overlapping and freely moveable video and graphics windows of unlimited size
•
Up to 64 videos on one to four projection modules.
The A
RGUS
system provides a flexible and scalable architecture, which is suitable to support all sizes of display
walls. Just one A
RGUS
P
ROCESSOR
and one to five A
RGUS
O
MNI
B
US
devices can be used to set up a monolithic system.
Or for more complex configurations a distributed system can be used consisting of a central processor and multi-
ple rendering engines to control a display wall of any size and number of input sources.
Independent of the usage of a monolithic system or a distributed system, both the user and the application soft-
ware ‘see’ one single display. Installation, operation and service do not differ from that of a standard X terminal.
A
RGUS
offers the possibility to operate it in normal boot mode or in eXtended safety boot mode. Normal boot
mode offers full write access to the hard disk and enables the operation of the wall management software O
SIRIS
.
eXtended safety boot mode offers in addition to normal boot mode a backup partition for improved system
safety. With eXtended safety boot mode the system files are stored safely, and faultless startup is guaranteed
even after unpredictable events, e.g. power failure.
A
RGUS
is the perfect solution for the integration of video and RGB sources into desktop graphic data into digitally
controlled display walls. However graphics only systems support also analog display connection.