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RealiZm Graphics

Hardware User’s Guide

February 1997

DHA017120

Summary of Contents for RealiZm Graphics V25

Page 1: ...RealiZm Graphics Hardware User s Guide February 1997 DHA017120...

Page 2: ...ftware and its file formats and audio visual displays described herein all rights reserved may only be used pursuant to the applicable software license agreement contains confidential and proprietary...

Page 3: ...ence Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications Warnings Changes or modifications made to the system that are not approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s a...

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Page 5: ...nfiguring Display Properties 4 Changing the Default Video Display Driver 6 2 Upgrading or Replacing Z10 7 Precautions 7 Installing a Texturing Accelerator 8 Replacing Z10 or Z10 T 10 Installing a Dual...

Page 6: ...ctions 45 High Speed Graphics DMA Engine 45 MIMD DSP Architecture 45 Sequence Controller 45 5 Hardware Description 47 Rasterization Accelerator Components 47 Z10 47 Z13 48 Z25 and V25 49 PCIDMA 50 Gra...

Page 7: ...vii Interfaces 60 Video Output Port 60 VGA Input Port 61 Stereo Sync Output Port 62 Index 63 Returned Goods Authorization RGA Form Warranty Procedure Repair Depot Address Labels...

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Page 9: ...ctions for Z10 and Z10 T and installing Z10 or Z10 T for dual screen use in a deskside system It also provides instructions for installing the video display driver and troubleshooting u Chapter 3 Inst...

Page 10: ...NT documentation from Microsoft u For basic information on using and installing Windows NT Workstation 4 0 refer to Start Here delivered in the Windows NT Workstation software package u For detailed...

Page 11: ...k the Intergraph Bulletin Board Service IBBS is an electronic forum for Intergraph customers to exchange information with Intergraph s technical and marketing staff and with other Intergraph customers...

Page 12: ...vailable documents and an overview of the categories of available information u Call 1 205 730 9000 to order the documents up to 5 per call Finding Intergraph on the Internet You can find Intergraph o...

Page 13: ...r memory and supports resolutions up to 2 5 Mpixels 1824 x 1368 u V25 includes 32 MB of frame buffer memory and supports resolutions up to 2 5 Mpixels 1824 x 1368 Texture processing is 20 percent fast...

Page 14: ...re memory and geometry acceleration u The number denotes the maximum supported resolution For example Z25 and V25 indicates support for a maximum resolution of 2 5 Mpixels u The T suffix denotes suppo...

Page 15: ...ered as a Dynamic Link Library DLL file If you run an application that requires or uses the RenderGL run time library you need to install the RenderGL DLL to your system The RenderGL DLL is delivered...

Page 16: ...corner click Start 2 Under Settings open the Windows NT Control Panel 3 In the Control Panel open Display The Display Properties dialog displays 4 Select the Hardware Settings tab The Hardware Settin...

Page 17: ...ys depending on your graphics hardware and selected video display settings If your system is configured with dual screens for example the page displays two monitor icons to indicate a dual screen desk...

Page 18: ...y driver 1 Open System in the Windows NT Control Panel The System dialog displays 2 Under Operating System select Windows NT Workstation Version 4 00 from the displayed list NOTE Do not select the VGA...

Page 19: ...maged notify the Intergraph Customer Response Center at 1 800 633 7248 immediately Precautions Static electricity can damage the components inside the system base unit and can damage the graphics acce...

Page 20: ...3 Open the system base unit as required to gain access to the PCI option board slots Slots are identified in Connecting the Video Cables later in this chapter 4 Use a quarter inch nutdriver to remove...

Page 21: ...his chapter to connect the monitor and VGA loopback cables 15 Restart the system and log on to the Windows NT operating system 16 Open Display in the Windows NT Control Panel The Hardware Settings pag...

Page 22: ...sets A Z10 T board set consists of two boards joined together as one unit An installed Z10 T board set requires two adjacent PCI slots The following figure shows a Z10 T board set To replace Z10 or Z...

Page 23: ...rews 6 Remove the Z10 board or Z10 T board set from the system 7 If replacing a single Z10 board with a Z10 T board set in a desktop system use a quarter inch nutdriver to remove the blanking plate fr...

Page 24: ...le connectors engages pin 1 on both board connectors The black wire connects to pin 1 10 Install the screws that were previously removed to secure the Z10 board or Z10 T board set to the system chassi...

Page 25: ...T board set deskside system PCI slots 4 and 5 Retain the screws 5 Install the new Z10 board or Z10 T board set in the PCI slots opened in the previous step In a dual screen configuration the primary...

Page 26: ...nit 9 Go to Connecting the Video Cables later in this chapter to connect the monitor and VGA loopback cables 10 Restart the system and log on to the Windows NT operating system 11 Use Display in the W...

Page 27: ...video will not display Single screen Z10 or Z10 T in a desktop system Connect the monitor cable to the Video port and connect the VGA loopback cable as shown in the following figure Dual screen Z10 i...

Page 28: ...creen Z10 in a deskside system Connect the monitor cables from the primary monitor and the secondary monitor to the Video ports shown in the following figure Connect the VGA loopback cable as shown in...

Page 29: ...nd Z10 T is different from the video display driver for Z13 and Z25 To install the video display driver 1 Turn on system power and log on to the Windows NT operating system 2 Open Display in the Windo...

Page 30: ...ostics Diagnostic utilities for checking the graphics boards and instructions for using them are available on the Intergraph Bulletin Board Service IBBS Refer to the front of this guide for instructio...

Page 31: ...rn to the last known good configuration recorded by Windows NT To use the Last Known Good option 1 Restart the system 2 Press the space bar at the following prompt Press space bar NOW to invoke the La...

Page 32: ...reen to yellow to indicate the power saving mode is active 6 Turn on the power to the system base unit If the Power On LED on the base unit does not illuminate or if the BIOS beep codes indicate a fai...

Page 33: ...1 800 633 7248 immediately Precautions Static electricity can damage the components inside the system base unit and can damage texture memory or graphics accelerator boards To minimize the possibility...

Page 34: ...V25 board contains two sockets for dual inline memory modules DIMMs Intergraph upgrade kits are available for 4 MB 16 MB 32 MB and 64 MB of texture memory Each kit contains two DIMMs an antistatic fo...

Page 35: ...the antistatic foam pad for protection and support CAUTION Failure to use the antistatic foam pad could cause damage to the board 3 For a Z25 or V25 board remove the DIMM access cover 4 Remove a DIMM...

Page 36: ...ff the system Ensure that both DIMMs are properly seated in their sockets and that both DIMMs are the same memory size Replacing Z13 Z25 V25 or Geometry Accelerator This section describes replacing a...

Page 37: ...one Z13 Z25 or V25 board If a Geometry Accelerator board is already installed in a dual screen deskside configuration disconnect the Vertex data bus between it and the graphics boards then disconnect...

Page 38: ...ata bus can be installed in only one orientation 10 If replacing Z13 Z25 or V25 in a dual screen deskside configuration connect the clock sync cable between the graphics boards Refer to the figures in...

Page 39: ...n PCI slots 1 and 2 In a dual screen configuration the primary and secondary Z13 Z25 and V25 graphics accelerators are determined as follows Primary Board installed in PCI slots 1 and 2 Secondary Boar...

Page 40: ...se Display in the Windows NT Control Panel to configure the video display driver to recognize dual screens Refer to Chapter 1 for more information Connecting the Video Cables After replacing Z13 Z25 o...

Page 41: ...ollowing figure Dual screen Z13 Z25 or V25 in a deskside system Connect the monitor cables from the primary monitor and the secondary monitor to the Video ports shown in the following figure Video Por...

Page 42: ...displays 3 Select Settings The Settings page displays 4 Select Display Type The Display Type dialog displays 5 Select Change The Change Display dialog displays 6 Select Have Disk 7 Insert the diskette...

Page 43: ...lect a supported resolution and refresh rate Two graphics boards installed but you cannot select the Dual Screen option Verify proper installation of all RealiZm graphics boards only one board was det...

Page 44: ...connecting or disconnecting the cables 4 Check and reseat all board and cable connections as needed 5 Turn on the power to the monitor If the Power On LED does not illuminate return the monitor NOTE A...

Page 45: ...ipheral Component Interconnect PCI Bus Interface Graphics Engine Texture Processor and Frame Buffer The PCI Bus Interface features u PCI compatible bus interface u High speed direct memory access DMA...

Page 46: ...erals PCI Compatible Bus Interface The PCI direct memory access PCIDMA application specific integrated circuit ASIC provides the PCI compatible bus interface for these accelerators including bus maste...

Page 47: ...ude 8 bit packed integer 16 bit packed integer 32 bit integer single precision floating point and double precision floating point The host processor achieves higher performance because it does not con...

Page 48: ...o the surface of an object such as a desk to enhance realism of the image Another example of texture mapping is draping a land image from a satellite over a digital terrain model to create a 3D repres...

Page 49: ...use The mask planes allow for access control of the various drawing planes for example image or overlay The image and overlay buffer selection control planes determine the buffer to display on a pixel...

Page 50: ...data a front buffer and a back buffer Two buffers enhance smooth animation since applications may update the back buffer while displaying the front buffer High Resolution Z Buffer The Z buffer holds...

Page 51: ...displayed colors without color degradation Hardware Cursor Hardware superimposes the cursor image over the video stream in real time minimizing the cursor management tasks required by the host proces...

Page 52: ...rdware accelerates many GDI functions OpenGL is an industry standard library of functions used to create and manipulate 3D computer images OpenGL functions as a part of the Windows NT operating system...

Page 53: ...ansfers data from the host processor to the Geometry Accelerator which then transfers data to the Rasterization Accelerator via a dedicated bus The Rasterization Accelerator receives GDI or OpenGL ele...

Page 54: ...textures for subsequent texture mapping In MIP mapping software creates smaller sized versions of a base texture and stores them in texture memory The smaller versions represent the base texture at v...

Page 55: ...cs FIFO Slope Calculation Request Handler Span Generation Pixel Interpolation Graphics Engine IZ Bus Resolver Video Memory 6 MB Video Selector and Mapper Digital To Analog Converter Monitor Z10 has a...

Page 56: ...ators Z13 shown PCI Bus PCIDMA Graphics FIFO Slope Calculation Request Handler Span Generation Pixel Interpolation Graphics Engine IZ Bus Z13 has a total of 16 MB Video Memory and two dual resolvers B...

Page 57: ...power of six floating point digital signal processors DSPs operating in parallel The DSPs speed the compute intensive geometry calculations of 3D graphics Each DSP can execute 120 million floating poi...

Page 58: ...put requests from each DSP flow through dedicated ports to the Sequence Controller The Sequence Controller time orders and formats the requests and then writes them to the Z13 or Z25 or V25 input FIFO...

Page 59: ...r Components The following figures describe the major components of the Rasterization Accelerator boards for the Z10 Z13 Z25 and V25 Z10 The following figure shows the front of a Z10 board VGA Input P...

Page 60: ...ws the back of a Z13 graphics board VGA Board Outline VGA Input Port Vertex Data Bus Connector VGA Board Connector Clock Sync Connector Video Memory Video Input Port Stereo Sync Port Digital to Analog...

Page 61: ...5 or V25 graphics board with covers removed VGA Board Texture Memory Access Cover Cooling Duct Cover Fans VGA Board Outline VGA Input Port Vertex Data Bus Connector VGA Board Connector Clock Sync Conn...

Page 62: ...ties for the Z10 and integrated within the same ASIC for the Z13 Z25 and the V25 The Graphics Engine is the main graphics processor for the graphics board and the core of the Rasterization Accelerator...

Page 63: ...part of the rasterization process for triangles and lines The span generation block determines the leftmost x and y coordinates for each scanline in a triangle It also calculates the initial color and...

Page 64: ...ture Processor places this value into its output FIFO The Graphics Engine transfers the pixel s location and color value from the FIFO to the resolvers for placement into the frame buffer Z10 Texturin...

Page 65: ...er ASICs perform the memory control function of reading and writing data to the video memory They also coordinate the movement of data from the video memory to the video selector and mapper VSM ASIC a...

Page 66: ...e of the frame buffer is video memory Resolvers control the flow of data to and from the video memory The various implementations of RealiZm accelerators have varying amounts of video memory 48 VRAMs...

Page 67: ...r of OpenGL data between the host processor and the Geometry Accelerator The DMA engine transfers data in bursts into the input output I O FIFO on the Geometry Accelerator DMA transfers free the host...

Page 68: ...o be processed concurrently and independently by each of the six DSPs This means that the DSP that processes the first input request may not generate the first output request Data moves through the DS...

Page 69: ...DRAM Z25 2 5 Mpixels 32 MB SDRAM Z25 T 2 5 Mpixels 32 MB SDRAM 4 64 MB SDRAM Z25 G 2 5 Mpixels 32 MB SDRAM Z25 GT 2 5 Mpixels 32 MB SDRAM 4 64 MB SDRAM V25 2 5 Mpixels 32 MB SDRAM V25 T 2 5 Mpixels 32...

Page 70: ...its Per Texel RGBA Total Texels 4 MB 32 1 MTexels 16 MB 32 4 MTexels 32 MB 32 8 MTexels 64 MB 32 16 MTexels For V25 Texture Memory Bits Per Texel RGBA Total Texels 16 MB 32 4 MTexels 32 MB 32 8 MTexel...

Page 71: ...nch monitors at the following resolutions and maximum refresh rates Hz Resolution Z10 Z13 Z25 V25 640 x 480 85 85 85 800 x 600 85 85 85 1024 x 768 85 85 85 1152 x 864 76 85 85 1280 x 960 85 85 1280 x...

Page 72: ...e video output port Z10 Signal Name Z13 Z25 V25 Signal Name Pin Red Analog Video Red Analog Video 1 Green Analog Video Green Analog Video 2 Blue Analog Video Blue Analog Video 3 Ground Monitor ID 2 4...

Page 73: ...eo Red Analog Video 1 Green Analog Video Green Analog Video 2 Blue Analog Video Blue Analog Video 3 Ground Monitor ID 2 4 Ground Cable Sense 5 Ground Ground 6 Ground Ground 7 Ground Ground 8 No Connec...

Page 74: ...to the LCD shutter glasses emitter module The following table provides the pin connections for the stereo sync output port Signal Name Pin Ground 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Stereo Sync 4 No Connect 5 The stere...

Page 75: ...5 VGA loopback 19 video cables 15 28 Cooling system Z25 and V25 57 D Default video display driver changing 7 Defective unit determining 19 32 Deskside clock sync cable installing 26 28 dual screen con...

Page 76: ...ce Controller 56 features and functions 45 high speed graphics DMA engine 45 MIMD DSP architecture 45 sequence controller 45 industry standard PCI bus 45 support 58 technical description 45 Getting st...

Page 77: ...45 screen refresh description 40 I I O FIFO description 55 Industry standard PCI bus description 45 Installing clock sync cable 12 14 26 28 dual screen upgrade Z10 12 Z13 Z25 or V25 26 texture memory...

Page 78: ...cautions 7 21 R Rasterization Accelerator components 47 features 33 functions 40 technical description 33 Z10 47 block diagram 43 board 47 Z13 48 back view 48 front view 48 Z13 Z25 and V25 block diagr...

Page 79: ...IMD DSP architecture 45 sequence controller 45 Rasterization Accelerator features 33 Frame Buffer 37 Graphics Engine 35 PCI bus interface 34 Texture Processor 36 Rasterization Accelerator functions 40...

Page 80: ...memory description 54 planes description 37 random access memory VRAM 54 resolution usable 19 31 selector and mapper VSM Z10 Only description 54 Video output port 60 pinouts 60 W Warnings iii Window...

Page 81: ...aph Customer Response Center From Customer Name Customer Contact Phone Mail Address Reason for Return NOTE All returned equipment MUST be shipped in original Intergraph packaging to obtain warranty se...

Page 82: ...stem you will be assigned a RGA log number 3 Complete the RGA Form on the previous page entering the RGA log number obtained from the Customer Response Center Ensure that the address in the From secti...

Page 83: ...oration 9805 Kellner Road Huntsville AL 35894 TO Repair Depot RGA No ________________________ Intergraph Corporation 9805 Kellner Road Huntsville AL 35894 TO Repair Depot RGA No ______________________...

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