Vela 2000-0422 Installation And User Manual - Interfaces
Chapter 1 — Getting Started
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Features and Characteristics
• Minimum of 32MB of RAM (64MB recommended).
• Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 (NT Service Pack 6a).
• Ultra-2 / Wide (16-bit) SCSI-3 host adapter (PCI bus), such as those made
by Qlogic
®
. See“Host Adapter (Initiator) Configuration,” page 16 for
configuration information.
• Adaptec
®
SCSI Protocol Interface (ASPI).
• System hard drive (SCSI, EIDE or IDE) for operating system.
• Dedicated SCSI hard drive to hold MPEG video files.
• CD-ROM drive (for software install purposes).
Features and Characteristics
Interfaces
System Interfaces
• 68-pin Ultra-2 (Fast-40) Wide SCSI interface (80 Mbytes/sec) LVDS SCSI,
compatible with single-ended Ultra SCSI.
• External SCSI ID switch.
• External SCSI termination enable/disable switch.
• SCSI hot swap switch.
• SMPTE Longitudinal Time Code (LTC) input: Master clock input for local
house time.
• NTSC/PAL Discrete Input determines power-up video standard.
• LED status panel indicates board power-up status, SCSI bus activity, LUN
playback activity, SCSI hot swap status, and power supply and fan failure
indicators.
• Each of the four decoder channels is independently accessible via individual
LUNs.
• Back panel audio and video connectors consist of two 44-pin D-Sub connec-
tors (analog audio, GPIO, LTC out, and tally); a 15-pin D-Sub for LTC input
and power-up video standard discrete input; and sixteen BNC connectors for
video out, genlock in, and digital audio out.
Playback Channel Interfaces (per channel)
• PAL/NTSC SMPTE 259M SDI output (w/EDH) with dual stereo
embedded audio.