Re: DPLEX questions [was: Re: Pipes]

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Moshe Nissim (moshe++at++orad.co.il)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:16:48 -0700

Thanks for the thorough and quick reply.

> Drops are handled elegantly, it continues to send the current channel
> out if the next one isn't done. At the next retrace, the now completed
> sequential pipe image is sent eventually the right data propagates
> through from the app to the draw processes.

So it's kind of analogous to a double-buffer operation on a single pipe

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the front buffer continues to be sent until the drawing to the back
buffer is finished?




> 
> Note, that this frontpanel *replaces* whatever connectors you are
> familiar with on an ONYX2 DG board so that 2 or 8 channel analog is not
> possible from a single pipe while you have DPLEX installed. You still
> have swapready & genlock.

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