Controller Board Handles Flat Panel Displays

For designers of ISAbus requiring interfaces to flat panel displays, the CDS545 controller card can be used to run color and monochrome, active and passive LCD screens with 8- to 24-bit interfaces. The card supports flat panel resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 and non-interlaced CRT monitors with resolutions up to 1024 x 768. Hardware windows acceleration includes a 32-bit graphics engine, three operand ROPs, color expansion, hardware line drawing and hardware cursor. True color and hi-color display capability supports resolutions up to 640 x 480. Colors are converted up to 64 gray shades for monochrome panels.