Barco Argus X Terminal User Manual

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2. SummaryBarco – Argus X Terminal – DOC-3265-2 – user's manual – Revision 04 – May-2004 _________________________________________________________________________ 2-22.1 PropertiesA RGUS was designed to control large, modular O VER VIEW display walls. Its multi-screen capability allows you tocontrol displays of virtually unlimited size. The display area is one logically connected display. Digital imagingdevices based on modern technologies such as Single LCD, DLP and Poly-Silicon LCD with the highest displayquality are controlled digitally. Digital data transfer is immune to electromagnetic interference and thereforeensures the display wall picture to be displayed in absolutely distortion free image quality. ™CRTRT monitors and analog projectors can also be controlled by A RGUS, using the analog output mode of the graphiccards. Thus, multi-monitor operator stations can be ergonomically designed and easily implemented.(DLP is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated)The hardware and software of ARGUS is based on world-wide accepted standards. A RGUS offers the following ex-ceptional capabilities:• High performance graphics output using the most modern processor and chip technologies• Supports current LAN and WANWAN interfaces• Graphic and video outputs in high color quality• Video in a window, up and down scaleable up to full-screen• Overlapping and freely moveable video and graphics windows of unlimited size• Up to 64 videos on one to four projection modules.The A RGUS system provides a flexible and scalable architecture, which is suitable to support all sizes of displayxible and scalable architecture, which is suitable to support all sizes of displaywalls. Just one A RGUS P ROCESSOR and one to five A RGUS OMNI BUS devices can be used to set up a monolithic system.Or for more complex configurations a distributed system can be used consisting of a central processor and multi-ple rendering engines to control a display wall of any size and number of input sources.Independent of the usage of a monolithic system or a distributed system, both the user and the application soft-ware ‘see’ one single display. Installation, operation and service do not differ from that of a standard X terminal.A RGUS offers the possibility to operate it in normal boot mode or in eXtended safety boot mode. Normal bootmode offers full write access to the hard disk and enables the operation of the wall management software O SIRIS.eXtended safety boot mode offers in addition to normal boot mode a backup partition for improved systemsafety. With eXtended safety boot mode the system files are stored safely, and faultless startup is guaranteedeven after unpredictable events, e.g. power failure.A RGUS is the perfect solution for the integration of video and RGB sources into desktop graphic data into digitallyGB sources into desktop graphic data into digitallycontrolled display walls. However graphics only systems support also analog display connection.