About The Md5/Dfp Board - Planar DOME Md5/DFP Installation Manual

2 | Planning the Board Installation

About the Md5/DFP Board

The Md5/DFP™ display controller (board) supports high-
quality, flat-panel display in both grayscale and color. Each
board can drive up to two flat panels. The board supports
the resolution and palette combinations listed in this table.
Resolution
1536 x 2048
1536 x 2048
2048 x 2560
a. Maximum resolution in pixels (width x height).
This table summarizes the features and benefits of the board.
This feature...
Short-length universal card
Wide range of display
resolutions
Hardware copy accelerator
Optimized zero wait-state
PCI local bus
On-board VGA™ support
a
Palette Orientation
Grayscale Portrait
Pseudocolor Landscape
Grayscale Portrait
Provides this benefit...
Works in both 3.3V and 5V PCI slots.
Software-programmable resolutions of
1536 x 2048 pixels in both landscape
and portrait modes, and 2048 x 2560
pixels in portrait mode. Support for
DOME
display.
On-board copy speeds up to
300 MB/sec.
Rapid image transfer to the board from
system memory and other PCI cards.
Can boot in MS-DOS™ and Microsoft
Windows.
of 640 x 480 pixels and 800 x 600 pixels.
Heads Bits per Pixel
1 or 2
1 or 2
1 or 2
®
C3™ or C5™ digital flat-panel
®
Support for VGA resolutions
8
8
8
®
(Cont.)