Grass Valley Profile XP Service Manual - Manual (Page 166)

Appendix B Theory of operation
166 Profile XP Service Manual 23 July 2004
Platform resources
The platform resources provide the infrastructure necessary to operate, interconnect,
and integrate all the application subsystem and real time subsystem components. The
elements that make up the platform resources are found mostly (but not exclusively)
on the Motherboard and include the following:
• Multi-slot, bridged PCI Bus
• Support for NLX form factor single board computer.
• Mechanical card cage compatible with industry standard PCI boards
• Uncompressed video and audio routing fabric
• Compressed video and audio routing on the PCI bus
• Programmable PCI interrupt routing
• System power supply
• System cooling