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ProductNews
29 Sept 2005
TransForm A12 completes Barco’s range of TransForm A display wall
controllers by a 12-slot OmniBus. The new system features Switch Fabric
technology for ultra high bandwidth capability, integrated in a compact
4U 19” rack mount chassis.
Sales release
TransForm A12
Overview
A T
RANSFORM A12 system consists of one or more TRANSFORM A OMNIBUS A12 units, controlled
by a T
RANSFORM A Processor and populated with a set of TRANSFORM A expansion cards.
The new O
MNIBUS A12 extends and completes the TRANSFORM A product range. It provides an
economic and cost-effective solution for systems of up to 12 expansion cards, and with its
built-in Switch Fabric backplane it has the extra bandwidth reserves for the soon-to-come
input card for high-resolution/high-frame rate RGB-DVI-HDTV sources
Ultra high bandwidth Switch Fabric
Still, O
MNIBUS A18 with its advanced implementation of a bus-oriented backplane architecture
is well suited for many of today's and future system requirements. However it is also obvious
that the PCI66/64 bus of this device with its 533MByte/s can hardly keep up with the growing
demand for bandwidth in applications with multiple high definition inputs. Already in the first
half of 2006, when HD inputs will become available for T
RANSFORM A, depending on type and
number of input signals, O
MNIBUS A12 might become mandatory for such projects.
In opposite to the single, commonly shared connection between all input cards and output
cards of a bus architecture backplane like in O
MNIBUS A18, a Switch Fabric architecture
provides multiple, dynamically assigned private pathways between all cards. This enables
concurrency in operation.
Multiple data streams can be transferred in parallel at the same time. By this parallelism the
total bandwidth of the O
MNIBUS A12 is up to 3 times the bandwidth of the OMNIBUS A18, while
still using the same cards. Each O
MNIBUS A12 provides up to theoretically 1.6 GByte/s of
bandwidth (1.2 GByte/s real).
Compact and economic
The O
MNIBUS A12 is built into a compact
19-inch 4U rack mount chassis.
As with the O
MNIBUS A18 there are two
dedicated slots for the link interface card
and for the backplane CPU card.
These cards are located next to the 2+1
redundant power supply which serves the
high power requirement of the system
with 3 hot-swappable power modules.
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ProductNews
Decision making
The choice between T
RANSFORM A12 and TRANSFORM A18 is mainly driven by two parameters:
the total amount of slots and the max. bandwidth required for the application.
If the bandwidth calculation for a given display area results in more than 400MB/s this is a
clear indication to realize the project using a T
RANSFORM A12 system.
If the configuration of a project results in the same amount of units for the O
MNIBUS A18 and
the O
MNIBUS A12, due to price reasons the OMNIBUS A12 might be preferred.
The O
MNIBUS A12, which comes standard with redundant power supply, has the same price as
the non-redundant O
MNIBUS A18, while the price of the redundant OMNIBUS A18 is about 10%
higher. Practically this means that up to 12 slots and for 19 to 24 slots T
RANSFORM A12
represents the more cost effective solution compared to T
RANSFORM A18.
Since current statistics show that more than 50% of the projects do not require more than
8 ± 4 slots for expansion cards, O
MNIBUS A12 is a best fit solution to reduce cost without any
tradeoff in quality or reliability, but at an even improved performance level.
Compatibility
T
RANSFORM A12 will be supported in Windows Driver Release 4.0, X Server Release 4.0, and
Apollo 1.8 and newer releases of these software products.
The entire range of current T
RANSFORM A input and output cards (UGX Graphic Card,
OmniScaler, Quad Analog Video Card, Dual RGB Input Card, Streaming Video Card and
Quad SDI Video Card) is fully compatible with the O
MNIBUS A12.
It is also possible to connect a mixed set of O
MNIBUS A12 and OMNIBUS A18 devices to one
T
RANSFORM A Processor.
Article numbers and availability
Starting from now T
RANSFORM A12 can be ordered. Delivery starts in week 44.
Item Description Comment
RSAGS33590 TransForm A OMNIBUS A12 red.PSU No non-redundant Version
available
RSPCX33639 Spare Power module for RSAGS33590
The new items and their pricing will be available in BFO after sync.
The BFO configurator also got updated, now offering the selection between a T
RANSFORM A6,
T
RANSFORM A12 or TRANSFORM A18 realization.
Rudolf Winghart
Product Manager
rudolf.winghart@barco.com
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