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TRITEC
Electronic AG
DSe-TSTU2 • 01.02.99 • V 2.2
Whichever model you choose, you will know these
new desktop systems maintain binary compatibility
with our entire product family. Also, you can still run
any of more than 10,000 solutions available on the
SPARC/Solaris™ platform; but now faster and better,
without recompiling.
Network computing at its best.
A growing number of organizations are upgrading their
older, 10-megabit-per-second Ethernet local area net-
works with new 100-megabits-per-second Fast
Ethernets. The higher data rates are needed to carry the
profusion of new media types (e.g. video, images and
audio) and support new real-time collaborative appli-
cations such as video-conferencing and shared
whiteboards. The TriStation U2 architecture is the first
to feature Fast Ethernet capability built into the system
motherboard, saving customers the cost of adding
boards.
Creator powers your creativity
In addition to cost-effective 8-bit graphics solutions for
EDA, CASE, and a wide range of business applications.
Also, you can choose either the TriStation U2 Creator or
TriStation U2 Creator3D which bring visual computing
to a new level.
Creator graphics, tightly coupled to the processor
through the UPA interconnect, allow the entire system
to act as a graphics engine, utilizing floating-point pro-
cessor speed, VIS capabilities, and memory capacity to
their fullest. At the same time, 3D-RAM technology
combines the best features of DRAM, SRAM, and
VRAM into one chip and delivers up to 600 million
pixel operations per second. Other designs costing
much more just can’t keep up. This powerful graphics
offering gives you 24bit, single-buffered 2-D graphics,
and imaging; enabling you to pan, zoom, rotate, con-
volve, and do color conversion at unprecedented
speeds. It’s the ideal solution for full-color prepress,
publishing, medical, or GIS.
When you need all that and more, there is Creator3D,
with all the fast image processing and MPEG video de-
compression of Creator graphics. Also included are ac-
celerated 24-bit, double- and Z-buffered 3-D rendering
which are perfect for visualization, MCAD, medical im-
aging, and molecular modeling.
Creator2D Graphics System
The midrange TriStation U2 Creator system, with 24-bit
true-color graphics capability, was designed from the
ground up for interactive graphics, imaging, video play-
back, and real-time information processing.
Creator 3D Graphics System
The TriStation U2 Creator 3D system combines the best
of everything: true-color graphics, high-speed image
processing, video decompression, and 3-D rendering
capabilities; thus taking visual computing to a new
level.
UPA provides high throughput
To make the most of this powerful processor, the Ul-
tra™ Port Architecture (UPA), a crossbar-switched inter-
connect was developed to enable multiple simulta-
neous data transfers and to provide ten times the band-
width of previous bus-based technologies. Now data
transfers between processor, memory, I/O, and graphics
are faster than ever before; that means vastly improved
application performance. Data transfer rates up to
2.6 GByte/sec (burst) and 1.2 GByte/sec (sustained) are
provided by the UPA.
Built-in Fast-Wide SCSI and 100/10 MBit Ethernet
speeds up the network
As with all TRITEC systems, the TriStation U2 desktop
will integrate into even the most complex multivendor
environment. With 100-MBit/sec Fast Ethernet as a fully
integrated, standard feature, the High-End TriStation U2
systems deliver 10 times the bandwidth of other desk-
tops while maintaining compatibility to existing
10Mbit/sec Ethernet connections. And the Fast-Wide,
20-MByte/sec SCSI-2 interface delivers accelerated per-
formance from those applications you depend on most
Four SBus Slots provide powerful expansion options
Once more the SBus has been optimized by 16 addi-
tional 64Byte streaming buffers and delivers now trans-
fer rates of 120/100 MBytes/sec (write/read). As a
unique feature TRITEC’s TriStation U2 provides four
SBus-slots that let you use double and quad SBus-cards.
With this feature you can easily have multiple graphics
adapters and networking devices in your system. If even
four expansion slots will not be enough, you can have
up 15 additional SBus slots by using an optional expan-
sion chassis.
Ready for the future
TriStation U2 systems are available as diskless worksta-
tions, or with a comprehensive range of factory in-
stalled mass storage options, which include not only
two internal high-performance 3.5” disk drives (up to
2 x 9 GB capacity), but also the additional choice of an
internal 32 speed CD-ROM or 4mm DAT tape drive.
Two serial interfaces (RS-232C/RS432), a Centronics-
compatible High-Speed Port (4MBit/sec) and a 16bit
CD-quality stereo audio port are completing the com-
prehensive list of built-in features. It’s leading edge UPA
architecture and computing performance make the
TriStation U2 the optimum price /performance choice
for Government and Financial applications; as well as
Software Development, Electronics Design (EDA),
Internetworking and Research & Development projects.
TriStation U2 Series
Overview