Falcon Curtiss-Wright PMC Graphics and Video Windows Card

The Curtiss-Wright / Prima Graphics Falcon / Falcon CC PMC Graphics and Video Windows Card is a member of the Hawkeye PMC range of radar, video and graphics boards. It is an integrated graphics and video windows card that supports a full range of display resolutions up to 1280x1024 pixels.

Falcon uses the Silicon Motion Lynx3DM graphics controller offering the advantage of low power dissipation while maintaining high power 3D and 2D performance. The Lynx3DM incorporates an IEEE Floating Point Setup engine as well as a fully featured 3D rendering engine.

Falcon CC uses the Silicon Motion Lynx3DM+ graphics controller offering the advantage of low power dissipation whilst maintaining powerful 3D and 2D performance. The Lynx3DM+ incorporates an IEEE Floating Point Setup engine as well as a fully featured 3D rendering engine.

Falcon / Falcon CC's video input accepts composite (CVBS), S-Video (Y/C) or RGB video in PAL, NTSC or SECAM formats. Monochrome video in CCIR or RS-170 format is also supported. Video input of non-interlaced RGB video (e.g. VGA 640x480) is also possible. Video windows generated from the video input may be optionally zoom enlarged to full screen or zoom reduced down to one sixteenth original size.

Video output from Falcon is either analogue RGB, digital DVI or analogue TV (Windows NT 4.0/2000 only). Whereas, the Falcon CC outputs standard analogue RGB video. Both cards support 8-bit, 16-bit or 24- bit color. A wide range of interlaced and non-interlaced formats are supported, including STANAG 3350 AVS Class A.

Falcon features a rugged design with low power dissipation. Falcon CC features a rugged conduction cooled design with low power dissipation. This allows these cards to operate in a wide range of environments, including conditions of high temperature and vibration.

Applications may be developed running under Linux, Solaris (Intel x86 only), and LynxOS.