Installing The Mosaic-Hq Card - Datapath Mosaic-HQ User Manual

Installing the Mosaic-HQ Card

The Mosaic-HQ outputs digital video onto a high speed bus. The graphics card
(Vantage4-SIP) takes the digital video from the high speed bus and puts it on
the displays. The high speed bus runs from card to card via SIP cables. The SIP
cables are short and can be connected in only one direction.
When you design a system that incorporates Mosaic-HQ, you must follow these
rules:
The Mosaic-HQ cards must be grouped together and the graphics cards must
be grouped together.
There can be up to four Mosaic-HQ cards in a group.
The number of graphics cards in a group is limited by your system.
The Mosaic-HQ cards must be positioned with their heat sinks facing the
graphics cards (see Diagram 2).
You can have multiple groups of Mosaic-HQ cards and graphics cards but for a
video to be displayed on a graphics card, the video source must be connected
to a Mosaic-HQ card that is connected to the graphics card.
Note:
If Mosaic- HQ and Mosaic-SQ16 are being installed in the same system,
the Mosaic-HQ cards MUST be installed after the Mosaic-SQ16 cards, i.e
furthest away from the Vantage4 card. See illustration below.
Up to sixteen Mosaic SQ windows or eight Mosaic HD windows can be
displayed on a screen simultaneously.
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