EVS XS - 6.2. V3 X Video and Reference Boards

6.5. MTPC Board
6.5.1. Introduction
The function of the PC board is mainly the control of the video hardware and the interface
of the peripheral equipment (such as a remote controller) with the video hardware.
The following MTPC board is used:
• Revision A2/A4 with COMMEL HS870 motherboard and a new time code
management module (with bootable USB).
In standard configuration the PC hardware is composed by:
• One mounting PC board, with serial ports, LTC reader and generator, is controlled by
the motherboard.
• IDE System Hard disk: the IDE disk drive is used for storing the EVS software and
the DOS operating system. Neither audio nor video data is saved on this disk. The
capacity of this drive may vary depending on market availability, but the system
partition is always set to 1GB. The remaining capacity of this drive is not used.
• 64/128MB SDRAM modified. The SDRAM used has been modified to suit the
system requirements. Please contact EVS support for RAMs upgrade. Do not use
standard PC RAM modules.
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