Grass Valley UniConfi NVISION Series v.2.0 - Manual (Page 54)

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Partitions and Signal Types
Partition Types
Read All and Write All
At the bottom of the ‘Configuration’ window are two buttons: Read All and Write All.
When you open a configuration in this window, it is usually prudent to click Read All to be sure
you are viewing the control card’s most recent configuration.
Click Write All (at any time) to have UniConfig write the entire configuration to the control card.
S If you forget to click Write All and close UniConfig or open another control card, any changes
you have made will be lost. UniConfig gives no warning.
Multiple Control Cards
Each control card in a router frame must be configured separately and identically (except for its
IP address).
Expanded routers have multiple frames. The control cards in each frame must be configured
identically (except for their IP addresses) but the configurations in the different frames will vary
slightly.
See Expanded Routers — Multiple Frames on page 50.
Partition Types
A router’s control card has no direct information regarding the type of signals actually being
switched in its matrix.
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Therefore, UniConfig defines the signal types for the control card. These are the supported parti-
tion types, for all routers:
Video Audio Machine Control
Video, Async AES, Time Code Mono AES, Analog Audio Machine Control Reverse
Digital Video Analog Audio Machine Control Broadcast
Async AES Machine Control Forward
Sync AES, analog audio Data X-Y
Asynchronous AES *
* (Asynchronous AES applies only to NV8500 family routers.)
Some partition types include more than one signal type. Some signal types are represented by
more than one partition type.
Mono partitions are structured differently from stereo partitions and can be used differently.
The 4 machine control partition types behave differently.
Artificial Partition Types
Uniconfig provides two additional artificial partition types:
• Monitor
• Output Follow
We say they are artificial because these types do not define a portion of the router’s crosspoint
matrix, but use UniConfig’s partition table as a convenient way to define router functions.
1. Control cards in the NV8500 hybrid routers (configured with MRC) do have some information about the
type of signals that can be switched.