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ORLANDO, Fla. - December 2, 2002
- Quantum3D®, Inc. and United Defense, announced
today at I/ITSEC that they have successfully implemented an embedded
training application for the Bradley A3 Fighting Vehicle. The
application features the Quantum3D Sentiris™ COTS PCI Mezzanine
Card (PMC), the most advanced embedded graphics subsystem available
today based on NVIDIA® Quadro®4 Graphic Processing
Units (GPU) technology. Quantum3D solutions for embedded training
are on display at the company's I/ITSEC booths (No. 1220 and 852).
The Bradley A3 Embedded Trainer is on display in the United Defense
Booth (No.1370)
The Bradley A3 Embedded Training Program represents
a growing trend in military training focused on embedding high
fidelity, synthetic environment training capabilities directly
into combat platforms to enable soldiers to practice a range of
essential combat/engagement activities as well as rehearse actual
mission scenarios in advance of operations, all while deployed
to the field.
Doing so enables soldiers to augment skills-based
training received in institutional and live training environments
as well as rehearse for specific engagements and missions. Until
the advent of Sentiris, the size, power, weight and cost of realtime
visual computing platforms necessary to conduct high fidelity
embedded training precluded actual deployment.
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| New Bradley A3 Embedded
Trainer |
The United Defense Bradley A3 program provides
embedded training capabilities for both commander and gunner positions
within the vehicle. United Defense integrated two Sentiris PMCs
with VME form factor COTS single board computers (SBCs) to support
independent 360-degree synthetic battlefield views for the two
sighting systems. Current training capabilities include support
for multiple, concise mission scenarios as well as "free-play"
with multiple targets and a range of terrains and weather and
lighting conditions that help to enhance vehicle crew readiness.
The system features an open architecture that supports existing
SEDRIS and OpenFlight™ ground vehicle databases, which enables
the reuse of U.S. Army data assets as well as enables combined
arms tactical training. To date, over sixty U.S. Army gunners
have successfully completed orientation training on the embedded
trainer.
"We have a no compromise approach to embedded
training at United Defense that requires deployed environments
to have fidelity as close to reality as space, power and weight
will enable," said Mark Russell, Manager, Simulation and
Training Systems Group, United Defense. "The Sentiris PMC
with NVIDIA GPU technology gives us the best performance in the
industry, compatibility with our existing mil-spec VME computing
environment, and a straightforward path for P3I that gives both
our customers and us a path for the future."
"Embedded training is an increasingly important
initiative within the US and allied military organizations, and
Quantum3D has focused a significant amount of its resources on
this growing market by developing COTS realtime graphics subsystems
like Sentiris that combine the performance, mil-spec ruggedization,
image quality, power efficiency and open architecture that are
essential for these applications," said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D
co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and business
development. "We're extremely pleased to be a part of the
United Defense effort to bring high fidelity training to the Bradley
A3 and we look forward to helping United Defense as it continues
to enhance the fidelity of the system and transition the program
into production."
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| Sentiris PCI Mezzanine
Card (PMC) |
Sentiris PMC
Quantum3D's Sentiris is the first PMC that brings the power of
NVIDIA GPU technology to COTS embedded visual computing applications.
Based on NVIDIA's Quadro4 Embedded GPU, Sentiris delivers higher
performance and better image quality than any PMC available in
the market today-with line, point and polygon primitive and full
scene anti-aliasing and texture mapping performance that surpasses
other PMCs based on competitive graphics chipsets. Sentiris supports
NVIDIA's unique nView™ architecture, which provides dual,
independent outputs-with both digital (LVDS/DVI) and analog outputs
at up to 2048 x 1536 resolution with 32-bit color and Z-buffering.
For sensor, camera and other advanced video I/O functions, Sentiris
also includes advanced video-in and video-out capabilities, with
intrinsic support for color space conversion, scaling and overlays,
for popular video formats including NTSC, PAL, S-Video and RS-170A.
Designed for open architecture applications,
Sentiris supports both Intel® IA32™ and PowerPC®
architecture systems under Microsoft® Windows®
(IA32 only), Linux and popular real time operating system (RTOS)
environments. Sentiris is compliant with IEEE P1381.1 and is compatible
with VME, CompactPCI and virtually all other single board computers
equipped with IEEE P1381.1 compliant PMC connectors. Sentiris
takes advantage of the Quadro4's PowerMizer™ technology to
deliver unsurpassed graphics performance with power consumption
and thermal dissipation that is typically less than 10 Watts-a
power and thermal envelope previously limited to simple frame
buffer technologies. Convectively cooled models of Sentiris™
are available from Quantum3D and its distributors. Conductively
cooled Sentiris™ models (per VITA 20-199x) are available
via SBS Technologies (www.sbs.com).
Sentiris is also designed to meet the rigorous shock and vibration
requirements of Mil-Std-810E and EMI/EMC requirements of Mil-Std-461D,
which makes it perfect for the hostile environments found in deployed
ground vehicle, marine, avionics and man-portable applications.
Sentiris' underlying Quadro4 graphics technology
is the most powerful embedded graphics processor ever developed.
Equipped with a 128-bit wide interface to 64MB of high-performance
frame buffer/texture memory, the Quadro4 is capable of delivering
up to 2.8 million anti-aliased lines per second, and up to 358
trilinear Megapixels/sec, which surpasses its nearest competitor
by a factor of up to 10x.
About United Defense
United Defense is a leader in the design, development and production
of combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers and
precision munitions used by the U.S. Department of Defense and
allies worldwide and is America's largest non-nuclear ship repair,
modernization and conversion company. To learn more about United
Defense, visit www.uniteddefense.com.
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets realtime 2D/3D visual computing
subsystems, integrated systems, software and solutions for the
visual simulation and training and embedded visual computing markets.
Quantum3D's Independence™, AAlchemy®, Obsidian®
and Graphite™ family of scaleable, open architecture image
generators include mission critical features, industry leading
performance, superior graphics and image quality, and unsurpassed
value, which have made the products the industry standard for
synthetic environment training applications. In addition, Quantum3D
creates and distributes realtime development software tools and
products including OpenGVS™ and the CG2 family of products:
Mantis™, VTree®, ViXSen™, IData™
and Facets™ - which enable developers to fully optimize their
applications to benefit from the company's visual computing solutions.
Quantum3D is the exclusive supplier of NVIDIA graphics technology
for the embedded military and aerospace visual computing market.
Quantum3D's embedded visual computing product offerings include
the Farsight™ program for custom form factor embedded graphics
applications, and the Sentiris™ and Ventana®
embedded graphics subsystems for COTS form factor embedded graphics
applications. Quantum3D is a privately held, venture-backed company
headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, please see
www.quantum3d.com.
07/06 Update
Convectively Cooled and VITA-20 Compliant Conductively Cooled
(with and without coatings) Sentiris models are available from
Quantum3D.
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Bradley A3 and Bradley A3 ET Photos courtesy
United Defense. AAlchemy, Obsidian, Quicksilver, Ventana, VTree
and Quantum3D are registered trademarks, and Independence, Sentiris,
Graphite, OpenGVS, FARSIGHT, Mantis, ViXSen, IData, SoftIG and
Facets are trademarks of Quantum3D, Inc. CG2 is a registered trademark
of CG2, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quantum3D, Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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