A 64-bit DRAM card, the Paradise Pipeline 64 (from $169) accelerates 8-, 16-, and 24-bit color depths at resolutions of up to 1600 by 1200 pixels. Available for the PCI and VL-Bus with up to a 4-MB DRAM frame buffer, the card features Western Digital's RocketChip WD9710 graphics and motion-video accelerator. This accelerator combines a high-performance RAMDAC, a programmable clock, a VGA core, a graphics engine, and a motion-video engine with built-in logic for YUV-to-RGB color-space conversion, horizontal and vertical scaling and interpolation, and shared frame-buffer control.
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