SCALABLE, OPEN ARCHITECTURE ADVANCED
PC IMAGE GENERATOR

AAlchemy™ sets the standard for realtime 3D graphics performance. The AAlchemy series delivers full-scene anti-aliasing and scalable graphics performance enabling realtime rendering of complex synthetic environments - rich in cultural features - at sustained frame rates. Featuring technological innovations in full-scene anti-aliasing, texture download performance, texture compression and high resolution, AAlchemy delivers breakthrough performance.

The AA5 Series of graphics accelerators offer the best graphics performance on the market today and are based on 3dfx® VSA-100 graphics technology. The AAlchemy family is compatible with a wide range of leading realtime 3D scene managers and supports leading 3D graphics APIs including SimGL* and 3dfx Glide® with realtime 3D file formats such as Open Flight® and Terra Page on a variety of PC operating systems.

The AAlchemy Series of PC IGs is an advanced third generation graphics systems equipped with full-scene, anti-aliasing (FSAA), dual processors and top-of-the-line realtime AA5 series of 3D graphics subsystems. AAlchemy has been designed to provide affordable, extreme-performance, extreme-quality 3D graphics for today's most demanding visual simulation applications. Volume AAlchemy customers are eligible for Quantum3D's long life cycle program.

• Dual Intel® Pentium® III or Xeon™ Pentium® 4 processors with up to 8 GB of system memory (single processor option on select models)
• AAlchemy AA5 Realtime 3D Graphics Subsystems combine 4, 8 or 16 3dfx® VSA-100™ graphics accelerators with up to 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory to deliver unmatched realtime 3D performance
• Ruggedized 4U 19" rack-mount chassis with shock mounted disk drives and add-in board retention mechanisms for enhanced shock and vibration immunity
• Support for 2 video output channels per system on select models
• Application transparent T-Buffer-based single-pass, full-scene, sub-pixel anti-aliasing with 4 or 8 sub-samples
• Support for single, double and triple-buffered rendering transparency and chroma-key support
• Support for T-Buffer depth-of-field, motion-blur and depth-of-focus special effects (depending on scene manager)
• Support for up to 9 levels of screen door transparency for fade LOD (depending on model and scene manager)
• Support for per-pixel atmospheric effects with simultaneous OpenGL® V1.2 API-compliant alpha blending and hardware support for non-linear fog table
• Supports perspective correct bilinear, trilinear and selective anisotropic texture filtering with per-pixel LOD MIP mapping with Gouraud modulated, detailed and projected textures
• Sustained independent triangle throughput greater than 1.5 M textured, independent triangles per second (also supports triangle meshes and strips for even higher levels of sustained polygon performance)
• On-chip support for 3dfx FXT1™ (4-bpt) and 3dfx (YIQ) compressed texture formats enables on-board texture storage of up to 128 Megatexels (@ 1280 x 1024 resolution) and peak texture paging rates of up to 528 Megatexels/sec (depending on model)
• Support for high-resolution texture maps (any size, up to 2048 x 2048 texels) for enhanced realism and geospecific mission rehearsal applications
  

SCALABLE PERFORMANCE
AND UNMATCHED IMAGE QUALITY
The secret of AAlchemy is it's Parallel Rendering Architecture™. It combines up to sixteen 3dfx VSA-100™ chipsets and 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory with up to 42.5 GB/sec of graphics memory bandwidth and SSE™ optimization to deliver industry leading polygon, fill rate and texture paging performance simultaneously with the industry's best image quality effected via T-buffer full-scene, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, high-resolution video output and color depths, advanced texture compression and up to 2k x 2k resolution texture maps. The net effect is a unique range of software compatible products that feature scalable performance and price points-from 115 Megapixels/sec to almost 900 Megapixels/sec-all with no compromise image quality. Now for the first time, integrators can fine-tune their IG to their application and budget-and still achieve the image quality needed for maximum training effectiveness.

THE AALCHEMY GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM
The AA5™ family of advanced realtime 3D graphics subsystems is available exclusively for deployment in the Quantum3D® AAlchemy™ family of scaleable, open architecture PC-based Image Generators (PC-IGs). AA5 subsystems feature Quantum3D's Parallel Rendering Architecture that combines the power of 8 or 16 3dfx VSA-100 graphics chips. The AA5 supports Quantum3D's unique Performance Trilinear™ technology which enables 2-pixel per clock trilinear rendering, 0, 2, 4 and 8-way Scan Line Interleaving (SLI) and 4 or 8-sample T-buffer™ full scene anti-aliasing to enable vis-sim integrators to "fine tune" the PC-IG for desired performance and image quality levels. The AA5 family also supports numerous essential simulation features that are critical for multi-channel deployed training systems and complex, multi-spectral synthetic environments. These include Quantum3D SwapLock™ precision inter-channel synchronization technology and hardware texture compression for mission rehearsal applications that require high performance texture paging and high resolution, geo-specific texture maps. The QSync™ module allows a variety of external signal sources to be used to synchronize an AAlchemy PC-IG.

AVAILABLE WITH nVSENSOR™
For IR and NVG applications, AAlchemy is available with nVSensor, Quantum3D's realtime hardware sensor post processing option that enables AAlchemy to host high-fidelity sensor simulations without the performance degradation associated with software-only approaches. With its 10-bit per pixel DAC and optimized support for MultiGen-Paradigm Vega™, SensorWorks™, SensorVision™ and viXsen™, nVSensor adds sensor effects including AC Coupling, AGC, Blur, Detail Peaking, Gain and Bias, OTW/Sensor Multiplexing, Noise, Polarity Inversion (white-hot / black-hot), Reticles and Symbology, and Tint to realtime rendered IR or NVG scenes with DVI and analog RGB output.

*This product is based on the published OpenGL® API, but is not an implementation which is certified or licensed by Silicon Graphics Inc under the OpenGL® API.

Updated 03-20-03. NOTE: Specifications subject to change without notice. Trademarks are the property of their respective holders.