DVI Technology Products

    by Douglas Dixon

DVI Technology hardware and software products, including

    - VDP i750 Video Processor and Display chips and
    - Pro750 and ActionMedia boards, plus
    - AVSS and AVK software development systems under DOS, Windows and OS/2, and
    - PLV and RTV compression algorithms.

	Chip Products       Pixel Processor Chips       Display Chips			Compression Algorithms       Production-Level Video (PLV)       Real-Time Video (RTV)       Intel Indeo
	Board Products       Prototype Boards       ActionMedia Boards       RT Video Board			Digital Compression Facility
	Software Products       AVSS Products       AVK Products

Chip Products

Pixel Processor Chips

• 12/86 VDP1: 12.5 MHz, 4 regs, 256 MRAM & DRAM
  • RCA, Silicon Compiler
• 82750PA / PA / VDP1b: 12.5 MHz, 8 regs, 256 MRAM & DRAM
  • SRI/GE/DSRC, Silicon Compiler
• 82750PB / PB / V1: 25.0 MHz, 16 regs, 512 MRAM & DRAM
  • Intel Custom

Display Processor Chips

• 12/86 - 82750DA / DA / V2 / VDP2: 20 MHz
• 82750DB / DB: 45 MHz, full CLUT, 2xVertical, YVU-RGB, D/A

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Board Products

           
                      Pro750 Application Development Kit /  Application Development Platform

Prototype Boards

• 12/86 - Tower Boards
• 7/89 - 7-Board Set
  • Video board: VDP, AT bus, RGB out
  • Audio board: TMS 320C10, 25 MHz Video Digitizer board: piggy back
  • Audio Digitizer board: piggy back
  • Utility board: 18K RAM, Sony CDU-100 CD-ROM, Joystick
  • 2 1-Meg VRAM max
• 7/89 - Pro750 Application Development Platform (ADP) FCS, $22K
  • See Intel DVI Pro750 Product Family (1989)

ActionMedia Boards

• 2/90 - ActionMedia 750: DS1 / CS1
  • Display board (DS1): PA/DA,
    • Audio: TMS 320C10, 33 MHz
    • Single monitor keyed VGA display, Horiz interp
    • CD-ROM interface: SCSI subset
  • Capture board (CS1): video & audio
  • ISA & MCA, 1-4 MB, GA's, local DVI bus
  • $1995/1M, $2495/2M, $2150 Capture, $4500 AVSS

• 11/91 - ActionMedia II: DS2 & CS2 FCS
  • PB/DB, AD DSP audio, SCSI port, ISA & MCA, GA's
  • AVK for OS/2 1.3 and Windows 3.0, PLV 2.0, RTV 2.0
  • AT $1895/2M, MCA $2095, Capt $695, AVSS $1K, AVK $3K

RT Video

• 1992 - Comdex/Fall - Intel announces RT Video board for real-time capture

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Software Products

AVSS Products - DOS

• 11/87 - 1.00 - Tower board, pre-beta
• 4/88 - 1.03 - Alpha program
• 7/88 - 1.04 - DOS 3.3, MS-C 5.1
• 11/88 - 1.05 - Large model microcode
• 4/89 - 1.06 - New interface, YUV/YVU, 3-D
• 7/89 - 2.00 - 7-Board Set / Pro750 FCS
• 11/89 - 2.10.2 - DS1, reduce code size, multiple boards
• 1/90 - 2.10.4 - VGA Key
• 3/90 - 2.10 - DS1 MCA, ActionMedia I, DOS 4.0x, RTV, stereo audio
  • reduced host RAM, reliability $4500 AVSS, Tools $1200
• 7/90 - 2.12 - V1 chip
• 8/90 - 2.13 - PAL support ?? 2.2x ActionMedia II

AVK Products - Windows, OS/2

• 11/91 - 1.0 - OS/2 1.3, v44, IBM Gold, Intel Beta + Enterprise
• 92 - 1.1 Windows 3.1 - v122, IBM Gold, Intel Enterprise Beta
• 7/92 - 1.1 Windows 3.1 - v158, RTV 2.1, Intel Gold
• 7/92 - 1.1 OS/2 2.0 - v159, RTV 2.1, IBM Gold

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Compression Algorithms

Production-Level Video (PLV)

• 1988 - PLV 1.0, 30 fps, full-screen, near-VCR
• 1989 - PLV 1.5, VCR
• 1990 - PLV 2.0, near-TV

Real-Time Video (RTV)

• 1988 - RTV 1.0, 10 fps, near-VCR
• 1990 - RTV 1.5, 30 fps, near-VCR, High data rate
• 1990 - RTV 2.0, 30 fps, VCR
• 1992 - RTV 2.1, scalable
• 1992 - RTV 3.0, video conferencing

Intel Indeo

• 1992 - Comdex/Fall - Microsoft announces Video for Windows, with Intel Indeo Video compression

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Digital Compression Facility

• 8/90 - 16-node 386-based hypercube
• 3-4/91 - 8-node, 860-based hypercubes
• 2/91 - New Compression Facility at Horizons Technology, Inc. in San Diego, CA.
      also NB Engineering, Inc., Crofton, MD

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