INDY TECHNICAL REPORT

Table of Contents

Section 2 Indy Configurations

2.1 Optional Peripherals

2.1.1 Internal Devices

2.1.2 External Devices

2.2 GIO32-bis Expansion Slot Options

Section 3 Indy System Boards

3.1 Custom ASICs

3.2 CPU Subsystem

3.2.1 Pipelining

3.3 CPU Bus

3.4 Memory Subsystem

3.4.1 Main Memory

3.5 GIO64 Bus

3.6 The I/O Subsystem

3.6.1 Ethernet Port

3.6.2 SCSI-2 Port

3.6.3 Parallel Port

3.6.4 Serial Port

3.6.5 Keyboard and Mouse Ports

3.6.6 ISDN Port

3.6.7 Audio

3.7 The Video Subsystem

3.7.1 Video Processing

3.7.2 IndyCam

Section 4 Indy Graphics

4.1 Graphics Processing

4.2 The Raster Engine

4.3 Framebuffer and Clipping Planes (8-bit Graphics)

4.4 Framebuffer and Clipping Planes (24-bit Graphics)

4.5 Color Lookup

4.6 GIO32-bis Expansion Subsystem

Section 5 XZ Graphics (tm)

5.1 VLSI Integration

5.2 Graphics Architecture

5.2.1 The CPU Interface

5.3 XZ Graphics Hardware

5.3.1 Command Engine

5.3.2 Geometry Subsystem

5.3.3 Raster Subsystem

Image Planes

Depth Planes

Stencil Planes

Overlay/Underlay Planes

Window Clipping Planes

5.3.4 Display Subsystem

Video Timing Control

Multimode Graphics Processor

Digital-to-Analog Converters

Live Video I/O Slot

Genlock

Stereo Viewer

5.4 XZ Graphics Features

MicroPixel(tm) Sub-Pixel Positioning

Blending

5.4.1 Point Anti-Aliasing

5.4.2 Line Anti-Aliasing

Slope Correction

Endpoint Filtering

5.4.3 SharpScene(tm) Accumulation Buffer

Progressive Refinement

Multi-Pass Spatial Anti-Aliasing

Optical Effects

Convolutions

Orthogonality

5.4.4 Lighting Features

Light Sources

Surface Properties

Two-Sided Lighting

Local Light and Viewer Positioning

5.4.5 Atmospheric Effects

5.4.6 Texture Mapping

Motivation

Quality

Flexibility

5.4.7 Stencil Planes

5.4.8 Arbitrary Clipping Planes

5.4.9 Pixel Read, Write, and Copy

5.4.10 Sphere Rendering

Section 6 Indy Video

6.1 Product Features

6.2 Indy Video Features

6.3 Physical Characteristics

6.4 How to Use Indy Video

6.4.1 Analog Video

Input

Output

6.4.2 Video Overlay and Blending

6.5 Hardware Features

6.5.1 System Architecture

6.5.2 Analog Input

6.5.3 Analog Output

6.5.4 SGI Digital Video Expansion Port

6.5.5 Scan Conversion

Digitized Video to Graphics

Graphics to Digitized Video

6.5.6 Frame Synchronization

6.5.7 Access to the CPU

6.5.8 Color Space Conversion

6.5.9 Video Crosspoint

6.6 Keys

6.7 Alpha Blending

6.8 Software Features

6.8.1 Video Library

6.8.2 Video Tools

6.8.3 Video Daemon

6.8.4 Kernel

6.8.5 X Window System Server

6.9 Specifications

Section 7 Software Environment

7.1 Indigo Magic(tm) User Environment

7.1.1 Online Documentation Viewer

7.1.2 Media Tools

7.1.3 Digital Media Clip Library

7.1.4 Media Mail

7.1.5 Interactive Presentation

7.1.6 InPerson

7.2 IRIS Explorer(tm)

7.3 Developer Tools

7.3.1 CASEVision

7.3.2 Compilers and Standard Development Tools

7.3.3 Iris Graphics Library(tm)

7.3.4 Open GL

7.3.5 IRIS Inventor(tm)

7.3.6 Image Processing Library

7.3.7 Digital Media Libraries

7.4 Operating System

7.4.1 IRIX 5.2

7.4.2 The X Window System

7.5 Networking