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[Project image] Intelligent Frame Buffer (IFB)
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Head: Mel Siegel

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Sensor, Measurement, and Control Lab

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Project Description

The completion of two identical PC nodes enabled software drivers to be developed and the first real test applications to be created. In the current two-node system two simultaneously decompressed video sequences, each on its own i486-based PC, can be displayed. Functionality and feasibility of node capabilities, such as pixel depth arbitration between nodes and frame rate synchronization, were demonstrated. Initial steps to use the video development platform for stereoscopic viewing met with considerable success. Much of this success is attributed not only to the completion of the initial hardware, but also to the selection of a more defined operating system. Greater access to programming resources allowed rapid development of device drivers and test applications.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Thomas Ault PhD Student, RI tomault@cs.cmu.edu
Alan's personal homepage Alan D. Guisewite Webmaster/Special Proj Asst adg@cmu.edu
Angel Jordan University Professor Emeritus, RI/ECE/ISRI ajordan@cs.cmu.edu
Mel's personal homepage Mel Siegel Associate Research Professor mws@cmu.edu
Robert's personal homepage Robert H. Thibadeau Adjunct Faculty, MLD rht@cs.cmu.edu

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