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Mac Picasso 540

The modular, ultimate solution for the Mac !

MacPicasso 540 baseboard is:

a powerful, top of the line, 128bit accelerated graphic board designed for DTP use
expandable to:

a really high end 3D accelerator engine

a video encoder with Y/C (S-VHS, Hi8) high quality video output

a TV tuner / video capturing board with RF + Y/C & CVBS inputs

a real time video effect generator machine

a super quality audio digitizer with embedded audio mixer

But first of all, it is modular!

"One for all, all for one!"

This means the user can:

start with a basic graphics board
choose any configuration to start from
upgrade it step by step to a complete A/V system
make it a really productive realtime 3D accelerator with video output
make it all in one!

The fully expanded board takes up to two PCI slots. Thanks to the direct local connection between the different modules, the MacPicasso 540 allows to reach speeds never seen with seperated stand alone products.

MacPicasso 540 baseboard provides:

ultra fast 128bit graphics acceleration, it is able to work with millions of colors up to 1152x870 (21") and provides a top resolution of 1600x1200 at thousands of colors and full gamma correction
multiple screens and screen flipping
supports seperated sync, composite sync, sync-on-green
embedded graphics acceleration is provided for QuickDraw 2D and QuickTime (QuickDraw 3D with the 3D module).

Productivity Booster

Village Tronicís custom realtime DTP autoscroll feature

Picasso Control

replaces Monitors & Sound for more powerful control & ease of use: custom high featured and flexible software allows to create personal resolutions to match old fixed-frequency monitors.

MacPicasso 540 baseboard benchmark ratings (MacBench):

10% faster compared to ATI XclaimVR;
20% slower compared to IMS TwinTurbo128.

Test machine configuration:

UMAX Pulsar, 225MHz 604e, 16MB RAM
Resolution: 1152 x 870, 75Hz, millions of colors

3D Overdrive modules

3D OverdriveI

Ultra high speed processor, 2x 64Bit, 2MB texture + 2MB buffer memory
4MB of buffer/texturemapping RAM

3D Overdrive II (3D Overkill)

3 x 3D Overdrive I chipsets on a single board, tasksharing
12MB of buffer/texturemapping RAM

Adds up to 3 64bit ultra high speed processors with 400 MB/s bandwidth working simulteanously. Each of them is able to address 4MB of memory that, added to the standard 4MB of the graphics board, brings up to 16 MB of memory†with 4 processors in all!

Thanks to the local buses MacPicasso 540 features 2 GByte/s of memory bandwidth.

Pablo II encoder module

The Pablo II video encoder allows to have, at the same time, an Y/C video output and a monitor output, in top quality.

Audio/Video module

Consisting of:

a TV tuner
a real time video digitizer
a video DSP for real time video effects
a real time audio stereo digitizer, 4 I/O channels
a audio mixer & audio DSP for real time audio effects

Alltogether, this makes the real Audio/Video difference! Combined with the Pablo II video encoder brings a full featured Input/Output video processing system monitor output, in top quality.

MacPicasso 540 FOCUS

MacPicasso^™ 540 by VillageTronic:
The modular, ultimate solution for the Mac !

Best price/performance relation!

Our spectacular modular design targets at the DTP market mainly with it’s baseboard whilst it’s versatility and upgradability also keeps the needs of a fast growing 3D and MultiMedia market in mind.

No adaptors needed:
- Apple video connector
- VGA video connector
Full autosensing on Apple connector:
- firmware provides only fitting resulutions for your Mac monitor
Standard version comes with 4MB display memory
- millions of colors up to 21" with full gamma correction
Widest range of resolutions on the whole market:
- even b/w monitor support
- portrait monitor attachable
- old 12-inch monitor support
- TV-Sets supported (RGB)
7-inch board:
- fits into every available PCI Mac/Clone
- even into PCI Performas !!!

Standard resolutions

Resolution	Colors	Monitor Size	Vertical Frequency (Hz)	Horizontal Frequency (kHz)
384x512	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	12"	60	24.5
640x480	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	14"	60, 67, 72, 75, 86, 100, 160	35, 37.5, 38, 45, 50, 84
640x870	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	Full page	75	68.8
800x600	B/W, 256, thousands, millions	15"	60.3, 72, 85, 100	37.8, 48, 54, 62.5
832x624	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	16"	74.5	49.7
1024x768	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	19"	60, 75, 87i, 100i	37.8, 48, 60.2, 80
1152x870	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	21"	75	68.7
1280x1024	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	n.d.	61, 74	64, 79
1600x1200	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	n.d.	96i	62.5
768x576	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	PAL TV	50i	15.5
640x480	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	NTSC TV	60i	15.5

"Productivity Booster" auto-scroll virtual resolutions

Resolution	Colors	Monitor Size	Vertical Frequency (Hz)	Horizontal Frequency (kHz)
640x960	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	14"	67	35
832x1248	B/W, gray, 256, thousands, millions	16"	74.5	49.7
1024x1536	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	19"	75	48
1152x1740	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	21"	75	67.7
1712x2432	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	21"	75	68.7
2432x1712	B/W, gray, 256, thousands	21"	75	68.7

Specifications may change without notice

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