Kontron 3U VPX graphics board VX3324

The Kontron 3U VPX graphics board VX3324 has been designed for long life cycle applications and is equipped with the AMD Radeon E6460 graphics processing unit. It targets military and aerospace applications.

The VX3324 comes in an embedded form factor and has been optimised for size, weight, power and cooling (SWAP-C) constrained applications and supports features such as DirectX 11 OpenGL 4.0 and Shader model 5.0, providing a 3D user experience. It also reduces the bill of material in multimonitor environments with its support of up to three independent high-resolution monitors.

The graphics board requires up to 22 W, enabling applications to be designed with a low-power footprint and low heat dissipation to meet the needs of power- and heat-sensitive situational awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications. Further target segments include command and control workstations, radar consoles and cockpit displays. Users can experience an increased field of view by spanning the video signal across three monitors. The integrated unified video decoder effectively offloads the system host processor when decoding HD H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 part 2 video streams, leaving maximum system resources for mission-critical tasks. Furthermore, the stereoscopic 3D capability of the Kontron VX3324 enables OEMs to equip ground control stations of unmanned vehicles with an unprecedented level of immersion and precision.

Due to its standard MXM 3.0 modules, the graphics board offers integrated future-proof scalability. OEMs can integrate new modules as they are launched without the need for a mechanical redesign. Plus, they are presented with a safe migration path which allows for simplified upgrades of image-centric applications and increased investment security of devices with long life cycles.