TABULAR VIDEO GENERATOR. T h e
tabular video generator forms the composite video
signals to display text data on six TV monitors. The
tabular video generator can create video in one of
three video formats. The video formats are 40 x 80
x 9, 40 x 80 x 8, and 48 x 16 x 9. The character
information to be displayed is received from the PIO
data and address buses, converted to a video bit
stream and then to the analog composite video
signal that is sent to the TV monitors.
I-DATA TRANSMITTERS. The I-data
transmitters interface the system computer with the
I/O controller.
The I-data transmitters receive
computer input data from the I/O controller and
level shift the data for transmission over the system
I/O cables.
C-DITEG Video Drawer
The C-DITEG video drawer receives the
formatted video data from the processor drawer and
generates the composite video signals for the display
control console and large screen displays. Display
data for hard-copy display is sent from the video
drawer to the processor drawer. The video drawer
is capable of driving six display control consoles
and two large screen displays. The video drawer
consists of the following functional areas:
Timing synchronizer
Bit map memory and control function
Video multiplexer
Tactical video generator
TIMING SYNCHRONIZER. The timing
synchronizer generates the clocks, sync signals,
blanking signals, and shift controls needed by the
video drawer for video generation.
BIT MAP MEMORY AND CONTROL
FUNCTION. The bit map memory and control
function consists of 44 or 48 1024 x 1024-bit
Cartesian coordinate memory planes. Video drawers
with field change 2 installed have 48 memory
planes. These memory planes store the images that
are to be displayed on the DCC and LSD. Images
are written on the memory plane by the processor
drawer using the same coordinates as if they were
being displayed on a screen. The display data is
read out of the memory planes as serial bit streams
and sent to the video multiplexer for eventual
display.
V I D E O M U L T I P L E X E R . The video
multiplexer receives the 48 bit streams from the bit
map memory and creates serial data streams for use
by the tactical video generator.
The video
multiplexer also provides the data for a hard-copy
printout to the processor drawer.
TACTICAL VIDEO GENERATOR. The
tactical video generator converts the data streams
from the video multiplexer into composite video.
The tactical video generator can generate color
video for six color tactical display channels and two
monochrome large screen display channels. Color
is not currently used in the AN/UYQ-21(V) system
and the six tactical color outputs normally drive the
OJ-535(V)/UYQ-21(V) display control consoles.
Pixel data from the data streams and sync signals
from the timing synchronizer are combined in the
tactical video generator to produce a composite
video output.
The video output is modified for
1075 lines per screen with 1024 displayable lines.
There are two modes of video output for the tactical
video channels: 1024 pixels per line or 1280 pixels
per line. In the 1280 pixel per line mode, the
additional 256 pixels are used to paint the VFK
labels on the DCCs. The LSD video is always
output in the 1024 pixel per line mode.
DIGITAL TELEVISION GRAPHICS
GENERATOR (DITEG)
The digital television graphics generator
(DITEG) is an electronics drawer that provides the
circuitry required to display graphics data on a
single PPU or DCC. One DITEG can drive one
PPU. In addition, the DITEG provides the interface
for ball tab information from a DCC to be displayed
on the DITEG display screen.
The DITEG
generates the composite video for display on the
PPU in a manner similar to that described for the
C-DITEG.
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