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- From: Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 24bit Static
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 03:03:11 -0500
- Organization: Masters student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.hardware: 24-Feb-96 Re: CV64 24bit
- Static by Tom Kennedy@fc.hp.com
- > I'd assume the static is caused by bandwidth limitations of the card
- > (display-refresh DMA has trouble keeping up). Most graphics cards
- > that use VRAM do the display-refresh DMA through the serial access
- > port of the VRAM. (VRAM is DRAM plus SAM.) That SAM (serial access
- > memory) is basically a copy of one row of the main DRAM inside the
- > VRAM. But, you can't do the DRAM to SAM copy when doing normal memory
- > access to the DRAM. I think that's the problem -- when the cv64 is
- > running a high bandwidth screen, occasionally the DRAM to SAM copy
- > doesn't happen in time to keep up with the screen refresh.
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- I would second this opinion.
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- Berend Ozceri
- Carnegie Mellon University
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