ALT Software, Fujitsu and STx Collaborate to Provide the Industry's First PCI-104 2D/3D Graphics Card; Visit the ALT Booth to See the New ALT PCI-104 Graphics Board and GT3D Development Kit at Telematics Update in Detroit May 16-17

Ideal for automotive, industrial control, and handheld applications, the GT3D meets or exceeds the most demanding design criteria for 3D display capabilities in a number of markets. STx and ALT have carefully designed the GT3D on an industry standard PC-104 card that exploits the unique features of the Coral-P/PA; delivering a graphics board with a seven-year minimum life cycle for both chip and board, low power (fanless), full industrial temperature standard for both chip and board (-40 degrees C to 85 degrees C, with 105 degrees C option), LCD (18bit standard), composite, S-video, VGA signals out; composite video in (decode); and 3.3V and 5.0V tolerance with on-board dynamic video source switching.

The GT3D Development Kit contains everything developers need to create a proof-of-concept or prototype for low power, ruggedized embedded products. The kit is supplied complete with a Freescale MPC5200 based Men Micro PP01 single board computer, an 8.4" TFT LCD panel, a CMOS video camera and the GT3D PC-104 graphics card itself. The software included boasts full support for the Fujitsu Coral P/PA graphics display controller with ALT's OpenGL binary driver and board support packages for Linux and other operating systems. Software and hardware developers will benefit from using the GT3D Developers Kit as a low cost base for Proof-of-Concept and/or rapid prototyping of graphics-rich navigation and driver information systems.

"As a worldwide leader in the development of embedded graphics display controllers, Fujitsu Microelectronics is pleased to work with ALT Software and STx," said George Wu, director of marketing for Technology Solutions Group of Fujitsu Microelectronics America. "By leveraging ALT's graphics software expertise and STx's design capabilities; customers can take advantage of the Fujitsu graphics display controllers with confidence."

"STX is well known for their ability to design complex and cutting edge embedded hardware systems" said Steve Viggers, Vice President of Software Engineering at ALT Software. "By combining ALT's graphics expertise with STx's hardware design capability and Fujitsu's high-performance graphics display controllers, we provide a great low powered, high performance graphics hardware/software solution."

"ALT is our primary partner in the embedded space, and we work closely together to provide complete hardware, software and system level support for complex semiconductor chips and boards," says Applebaum, President of STx. "Together we supply top-notch low cost ODM hardware, comprehensive software & pre-sales support."

Other Related Announcements Today:

--ALT has been selected by Freescale (NYSE:FSL) to provide OpenGL(R) and OpenGL ES solutions and comprehensive, professional software development, hardware design prototypes and support services to support Freescale's MPC5200B processor and the new Freescale Media5200 development kit.

--ALT's OpenGL and OpenGL ES drivers will be included in Wind River's new Platform for Automotive Devices, a fully integrated enterprise-wide solution that enables automotive manufacturers to create innovative telematics solutions

--ALT is working with Wind River to provide integrated support for VxWorks and the Freescale Media5200 reference platform and its on-board Coral P/PA support, in addition to the ALT OpenGL running on the VxWorks RTOS today supporting the Freescale Lite5200 and the Fujitsu CoralP PCI reference board.

--ALT is working with Green Hills to provide integrated support for INTEGRITY and the Freescale Media5200 reference platform and its on-board Coral P/PA support.

The GT3D Developer Kit includes the following:

--Custom plastic case

--450nit ultra bright 8.4 inch TFT panel

--CMOS/CDD camera for video capture demos

--Integrated power supply and LCD inverter

--Fujitsu Coral P/PA graphics display controller

--Men Micro's Freescale MPC5200 based PP01 PC104 CPU board

--ALT's GT3D OpenGL accelerated Coral P display card

--Binaries for manufacture/self-test

--Board support package for Linux. Other RTOS platforms are available for an additional cost.