(please read my introductory note to this report)

Indy Technical Report

Version 2.0

Table of Contents

Section 2: Indy Configurations

2.1 Optional Peripherals

2.1.1 Internal Devices
2.1.2 External Devices

2.2 GIO32-bis Expansion Slot Options

3.1 Custom ASICs

3.2 CPU Subsystem

3.2.1 Pipelining

3.3 CPU Bus

3.4 Memory Subsystem

3.4.1 Main Memory

3.5 G1064 Bus

3.6 The I/O Subsystem

3.6.1 Ethernet Port
3.6.2 SCSI-2 Port
3.6.3 Parallel Port
3.6.4 Serial Port
3.6.5 Keyboard and Mouse Ports
3.6.6 ISDN Port
3.6.7 Audio

3.7 The Video Subsystem

3.7.1 Video Processing
3.7.2 IndyCam

4.1 Graphics Processing

4.2 The Raster Engine

4.3 Framebuffer and Clipping Planes (8-bit Graphics)

4.4 Framebuffer and Clipping Planes (24-bit Graphics)

4.5 Color Lookup

4.6 GIO32-bis Expansion Subsystem

5.1 VLSI Integration

5.2 Graphics Architecture

5.2.1 The CPU Interface

5.3 XZ Graphics Hardware

5.3.1 Command Engine
5.3.2 Geometry Subsystem
5.3.3 Raster Subsystem
5.3.4 Display Subsystem

5.4 XZ Graphics Features

5.4.1 Point Anti-Aliasing
5.4.2 Line Anti-Aliasing
5.4.3 SharpScene Accumulation Buffer
5.4.4 Lighting Features
5.4.5 Atmospheric Effects
5.4.6 Texture Mapping
5.4.7 Stencil Planes
5.4.8 Arbitrary Clipping Planes
5.4.9 Pixel Read, Write, and Copy
5.4.10 Sphere Rendering

6.1 Product Features

6.2 Indy Video Features

6.3 Physical Characteristics

6.4 How to Use Indy Video

6.4.1 Analog Video
6.4.2 Video Overlay and Blending

6.5 Hardware Features

6.5.1 System Architecture
6.5.2 Analog Input
6.5.3 Analog Output
6.5.4 SGI Digital Video Expansion Port
6.5.5 Scan Conversion
6.5.6 Frame Synchronization
6.5.7 Access to the CPU
6.5.8 Color Space Conversion
6.5.9 Video Crosspoint

6.6 Keys

6.7 Alpha Blending

6.8 Software Features

6.8.1 Video Library
6.8.2 Video Tools
6.8.3 Video Daemon
6.8.4 Kernel
6.8.5 X Window System Server

6.9 Specifications

7.1 Indigo Magic User Environment

7.1.1 Online Documentation Viewer
7.1.2 Media Tools
7.1.3 Digital Media Clip Library
7.1.4 Media Mail
7.1.5 Interactive Presentation
7.1.6 InPerson

7.2 IRIS Explorer

7.3 Developer Tools

7.3.1 CASEVision
7.3.2 Compilers and Standard Development Tools
7.3.3 Iris Graphics Library
7.3.4 Open GL
7.3.5 IRIS Inventor
7.3.6 Image Processing Library
7.3.7 Digital Media Libraries

7.4 Operating System

7.4.1 IRIX 5.2
7.4.2 The X Window System

7.5 Networking