Video chip set handles decompression special effects, and mixing in many formats. (Intel Corp.'s i750 video processor chip set) (product announcement)

EDN, December, 1990 by Quinnell, Richard A.

The i750 video processor chip set helps you mix text, graphics, and video images in your computer-display application. The 2-chip set comprises a microprogrammable pixel processor for manipulating image data and a display processor for handling the video interface. The 82750PB pixel processor chip handles image decompression, windowing, and video mixing at the pixel level.

It uses a 48-bit-wide instruction word and can manipulate 16-bit data on 2 independent internal buses simultaneously. Its ALU uses 16-bit data but is configurable to provide an 8-bit dual-add-with-saturate operation for handling pixel arithmetic. The chip has an onboard 512-word x 48-bit instruction memory and a 512-word x 16-bit data RAM, as well as 16 general-purpose registers....

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