DigiPoS PowerPoS & Millennium Technical Manual
General Cont
• Five outstanding transactions (four In-Order Queue (IOQ) plus one
output latch)
• Dynamic deferred transaction support
Advanced, High-Performance Memory Controller
• DRAM interface runs synchronous (66/66, 100/100, 133/133) mode or
pseudo-synchronous (66/100, 100/66, 100/133, 133/100) mode with FSB
(for 66 / 66 operation, only external VGA is supported)
• Concurrent CPU, AGP, and PCI access
• Supports maximum 8-bank interleave (8 pages open simultaneously);
banks are allocated based on LRU
• SDRAM X-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 back-to-back accesses
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller
• AGP Specification Rev. 2.0 compliant
• Supports 266 MHz 4x mode for AD and SBA signalling
• Supports Sideband Addressing (SBA) mode (non-multiplexed
address/data)
• Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 1GB/sec
• Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization
Integrated Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator
• Optimised Shared Memory Architecture (SMA)
• 2 to 32 MB frame buffer using system memory
• Floating-point triangle set-up engine
• Single cycle 128-bit 3D architecture
• 8M-triangles/ second set-up engine
• 140M-pixels/ second tri-linear fill rate
• Full AGP 4x, including sideband addressing and execute mode
• S3 DX7 texture compression (S3TC)
• Next generation, 128-bit 2D graphics engine
• High quality DVD video playback (With DVD Drive)
• Flat panel monitor support
• 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920 x 1440
3D Rendering Features
• Single-pass multiple textures
• Anisotropic filtering
• 8-bit stencil buffer
• 32-bit true colour 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
• Reflection mapping, texture morphing, shadows, procedural textures and
atmospheric effects
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