Specifications

WHICH ARE THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE CYBERSTORM PPC?

Among many powerful details, the CYBERSTORM PPC offers the following features that

make it a high-end accelerator solution tor the Amiga:

Very high sustained memory performance of the PowerPC and the 68k processor

The CYBERSTORM PPC offers a very fast sustained memory transfer (up to 68 MByte/sec

on the 68060, and up to appx. 160 MByte/sec on the PowerPC 604e) and is therefore

perfectly suited for applications which have to deal with large amounts of data. As the

memory design of the CYBERSTORM PPC is already under the 68060 CPU some 50%

faster than the memory design of the CYBERSTORM MkII, it's performance in real world

applications can be up to 25% higher (measured with a Lightwave 4.0 test rendering).

Unfortunately there are no comparison values available for the PowerPC side, but the

sustained memory bandwith is very high when compared to standard PC solutions available

on the market today. Because of this high memory performance the board doesn't need to

offer a second-level cache option.

Fast PowerPC bus clock:

The PowerPC 604e processor on the CYBERSTORM PPC operates with a 1:3 ratio between

the internal clock and the bus clock; the 200 MHz version already operates with a fast 66

MHz PPC604e processor bus. This also supports the fast memory access of the

CYBERSTORM PPC.

A powerful Ultra Wide SCSI controller is integrated on-board

The integrated on-board Ultra Wide SCSI controller with a maximum transfer rate of 40

MByte/sec on the SCSI bus offers enormous performance reserves with todays fast storage

media, especially the fast harddrives which are available for desktop systems. Applications

which are depending on fast access to largest amounts of data can therefore be accelerated

significantly. The SCSI controller which is based on the Symbios 53C770 SCSI Sript

Processor operates as a DMA busmaster device. A standard 68pin Wide SCSI connector is

available for the connection of SCSI devices.

Fast add-on slot

A fast add-on slot, implemented on a high quality connector, is available for expansions. A

product which will be available in the fourth quarter of 1997 for this expansion bus is the

CyberVisionPPC, a high-performance graphics card which is based on the powerful

Permedia2 3D graphics chip. This expansion product will significantly increase the

performance of all graphics-related applications, especially those which use the CyberGL 3D

library for complex 3D applications.

Comprehensive PPC library

The comprehensive PPC library which comes along with the CYBERSTORM PPC offers

substantial functionality to integrate the PowerPC processor into the Amiga multitasking

environment. With this method the transparent and parallel operation of the two CPUs is

made possible, and the programming and use of software applications that utilizes the power

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