Brompton Technology Tessera M2 - Chapter 2 - General Overview; System Overview

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Chapter2 - General Overview
General
Brompton Technology make three Tessera LEDvideo processors for different applications:
M2, T1 and S4.
The M2 is the flagship in the Tessera range of processors. It can control up to 2 million pixels
over four Gigabit outputs and can accept incoming signals in a wide variety of formats up to
and including 3G-SDI and up to 1080p60.
The T1 has the front-side processing, scaling, rotation and DMXcontrol of the M2 processor
but with a single Gigabit output and can control up to 0.5 million pixels.
Meanwhile, the S4 processor does not have the front-side processing, scaling, rotation of
the T1 and the M2, but can control the same number of pixels across four Gigabit outputs as
the M2.
System Overview
The M2 processor can receive video input signals on any one of up to 3 ports:
l SDI A
l SDI B
l DVI-I/ Analog
The T1 and S4 processors only support DVI-D.
These inputs are dealt with in more detail in "Chapter 6 - Input Properties" on page60.
The Tessera processors can be controlled either via a mouse and keyboard or via a Mac or PC
running the Tessera Remote software and connected via Gigabit Ethernet. The processor
has an integral DisplayPort output port for local control and monitoring, and connects to
fixtures via four Gigabit Ethernet outputs (supplied on etherCON™ connectors). Each Gigabit
output can be distributed via standard Gigabit Ethernet peripherals such as switches and
fibre optic transceivers.