3D Accelerator with AGP-2X and DVD PRODUCT BRIEF • NOVEMBER 2001 ™ DESKTOP SOLUTIONS BLADE 3D™ Application Diagram VCR* TV* CRT

Product Highlights 2-8 MB Memory RGB •64-Bit Memory Bus at 125 MHz • AGP-2X with sideband addressing AGP/PCI BUS • PCI version 2.1 with bus mastering •AGP-2X Bus with Sideband Addressing • 64-bit single cycle 2D/3D graphics engine • Up to 8 MByte frame buffer clocked at 125 MHz 2D GUI *via Digital TV Encoder • Real-time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 playback • 8/15/16/24/32-bits per pixel color formats • Overlay differing video and graphic color depths ™ •Real-Time DVD Playback with THAMAA • TrueVideo® processor with true bilinear filtering • 256 raster operations (ROPs) • Minifier™ video module interface (VMI) to MPEG • I2C serial interface • Accelerated drawing: bitBLTs, lines, polygons, fills, and video decode • Integrated 24-bit 170 MHz true color DAC patterns, clipping, bit masking • Display two simultaneous video streams from both ® •True Video Processor • Extended screen resolutions up to 1400 x 1024 • Panning, scrolling, clipping, color expansion, sprites PCI and VMI • Extended text modes 80 or 132 columns by • 32x32 and 64x64 hardware cursor • Two scalers and color space converters (CSC) for •TVExpress 25/30/43/60 rows • DOS graphics and text modes independent windows • DirectX 5.0, 6.0 and OpenGL ICD API ™ Optional TVExpress Video Encoder • PC99 compliant DVD with THAMA • Trident hardware-assisted MPEG-2 architecture for • Direct interface to TVExpress video encoder for High Performance 2D/3D Accelerator DVD with AC-3 NTSC/PAL output • 32 entry command queue, 32 entry data queue • Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end • ClearTV™ for clean corners and edges of scaled images • 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates processing (parsing, decryption and decode) • Interlaced display for 640 x 480 (NTSC) or 800 x 600 (PAL) • Pipelined single cycle setup/texturing/rendering engines • Supports full DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke resolutions • DirectDraw™ acceleration • Microsoft® DirectShow 2.x native support, backward • Flicker reduction filter • Multiple buffering and page flipping, including triple compatible to MCI • Overscan and underscan buffering • No additional frame buffer requirements • Interpolated vertical scaling from 480 or 600 lines to 400 • 125 Mpixels/sec peak fill rate • Dynamic frame and field de-interlace filtering for high (NTSC) and 576 (PAL) • Dot crawl filter Setup quality play-back on VGA monitors (bob and weave) • MacroVision version 7.01 copy protection support • Enhanced 32-bit IEEE floating point input data • Tamper-proof software CSS implementation • Slope and vertex calculations • Freeze, fast-forward, slow motion, reverse Software Support • Back facing triangle culling • Pan-and-scan support for 16:9 sequence • Microsoft® Windows XP, ME, 2000, 95, 98, NT4.0, NT5.0 • 1/16 sub-pixel positioning TrueVideo® Processor • DirectX 5.0, 6.0 including Direct3D and DirectShow Overview Rendering • On-chip color space converter (CSC) • OpenGL ICD 1.0 • Very low-cost graphics solution for desktop PCs • High performance single-pass execution • Anti-tearing via two frame buffer based capture surfaces • BIOS development kit • Based on 0.25um CMOS technology • Diffused and specular lighting • Minifier™ with bilinear filtering for true video stream • Power supply: 2.5v and 3.3v • Gouraud and flat shading compression and filtering • 800,000 gates complexity • Full scene super sampling anti-aliasing • Horizontal/vertical interpolation bilinear filtering with Number of Chips • OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth-cueing Trident edge recovery technique (TERT) Performance SDRAM/SGRAM Configurations 2Mbyte 4Mbyte 8Mbyte • 16-bit Z-buffer • System clock: 125 MHz • Dual frame buffer apertures for independent memory • 8/16/32 bit per pixel color formats • Pixel processing rate: 125 million pixels/sec access for graphics and video • Texel access rate: 125 million texels/sec Texturing • YUV 4:2:2/4:1:1 and RGB formats • Supports 8MB of SDRAM at up to 125 MHz memory clock • 1/2/4/8-bits per pixel compact palletized textures • Video module interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decoder • 170 MHz RAMDAC for 1400 x 1024 resolution • 16/32-bits per pixel quality non-palletized textures • Vertical blank interval for Intercast™ • DVD playback in real-time (30 fps) • Pallet formats in ARGB 565, 1555, or 444 • Tri-linear, bi-linear, and point-sampled filtering Memory Bus Interface • DX6 anistropic filtering • 64-bit SDRAM/SGRAM memory bus at 125 MHz clock • DX6 texture compression • Up to 8 MBytes of local frame buffer • Mip-mapping with multiple level-of-detail (LOD) • Supports 2Mx16, 1Mx16 and 512Kx16 memory calculations and perspective correction • Fully programmable timings for RAS, CAS, refresh, etc • Color keying for translucency USA Taiwan Hong Kong Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Headquarters) Trident Technologies, Inc. Trident Microsystems (Far East), Ltd. 1090 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 3F No.51 Lane 188 Rueiguang Rd., (Hong Kong Branch) Phone: (408) 991-8800 Neihu, Taipei, Taiwan Unit 1, 18F, Tower III, Enterprise Square, 9 Sheung Yuet Road, Fax: (408) 733-1438 Phone: 886-2-2657-7686 Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Web site: www.tridentmicro.com Fax: 886-2-2627-8727 Phone: 852-2756-9666 Web site: www.trident.com.tw Fax: 852-2796-9849 PRODUCT BRIEF • NOVEMBER 2001 ©2001. All rights reserved. Trident and its logo are registered trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are acknowledged and are properties of their respective owners. 3D Accelerator with AGP-2X and DVD PRODUCT BRIEF • NOVEMBER 2001 ™ DESKTOP SOLUTIONS BLADE 3D™ Application Diagram VCR* TV* CRT

Product Highlights 2-8 MB Memory RGB •64-Bit Memory Bus at 125 MHz • AGP-2X with sideband addressing AGP/PCI BUS • PCI version 2.1 with bus mastering •AGP-2X Bus with Sideband Addressing • 64-bit single cycle 2D/3D graphics engine • Up to 8 MByte frame buffer clocked at 125 MHz 2D GUI *via Digital TV Encoder • Real-time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 playback • 8/15/16/24/32-bits per pixel color formats • Overlay differing video and graphic color depths ™ •Real-Time DVD Playback with THAMAA • TrueVideo® processor with true bilinear filtering • 256 raster operations (ROPs) • Minifier™ video module interface (VMI) to MPEG • I2C serial interface • Accelerated drawing: bitBLTs, lines, polygons, fills, and video decode • Integrated 24-bit 170 MHz true color DAC patterns, clipping, bit masking • Display two simultaneous video streams from both ® •True Video Processor • Extended screen resolutions up to 1400 x 1024 • Panning, scrolling, clipping, color expansion, sprites PCI and VMI • Extended text modes 80 or 132 columns by • 32x32 and 64x64 hardware cursor • Two scalers and color space converters (CSC) for •TVExpress 25/30/43/60 rows • DOS graphics and text modes independent windows • DirectX 5.0, 6.0 and OpenGL ICD API ™ Optional TVExpress Video Encoder • PC99 compliant DVD with THAMA • Trident hardware-assisted MPEG-2 architecture for • Direct interface to TVExpress video encoder for High Performance 2D/3D Accelerator DVD with AC-3 NTSC/PAL output • 32 entry command queue, 32 entry data queue • Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end • ClearTV™ for clean corners and edges of scaled images • 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates processing (parsing, decryption and decode) • Interlaced display for 640 x 480 (NTSC) or 800 x 600 (PAL) • Pipelined single cycle setup/texturing/rendering engines • Supports full DVD 1.0, VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke resolutions • DirectDraw™ acceleration • Microsoft® DirectShow 2.x native support, backward • Flicker reduction filter • Multiple buffering and page flipping, including triple compatible to MCI • Overscan and underscan buffering • No additional frame buffer requirements • Interpolated vertical scaling from 480 or 600 lines to 400 • 125 Mpixels/sec peak fill rate • Dynamic frame and field de-interlace filtering for high (NTSC) and 576 (PAL) • Dot crawl filter Setup quality play-back on VGA monitors (bob and weave) • MacroVision version 7.01 copy protection support • Enhanced 32-bit IEEE floating point input data • Tamper-proof software CSS implementation • Slope and vertex calculations • Freeze, fast-forward, slow motion, reverse Software Support • Back facing triangle culling • Pan-and-scan support for 16:9 sequence • Microsoft® Windows XP, ME, 2000, 95, 98, NT4.0, NT5.0 • 1/16 sub-pixel positioning TrueVideo® Processor • DirectX 5.0, 6.0 including Direct3D and DirectShow Overview Rendering • On-chip color space converter (CSC) • OpenGL ICD 1.0 • Very low-cost graphics solution for desktop PCs • High performance single-pass execution • Anti-tearing via two frame buffer based capture surfaces • BIOS development kit • Based on 0.25um CMOS technology • Diffused and specular lighting • Minifier™ with bilinear filtering for true video stream • Power supply: 2.5v and 3.3v • Gouraud and flat shading compression and filtering • 800,000 gates complexity • Full scene super sampling anti-aliasing • Horizontal/vertical interpolation bilinear filtering with Number of Chips • OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth-cueing Trident edge recovery technique (TERT) Performance SDRAM/SGRAM Configurations 2Mbyte 4Mbyte 8Mbyte • 16-bit Z-buffer • System clock: 125 MHz • Dual frame buffer apertures for independent memory • 8/16/32 bit per pixel color formats • Pixel processing rate: 125 million pixels/sec access for graphics and video • Texel access rate: 125 million texels/sec Texturing • YUV 4:2:2/4:1:1 and RGB formats • Supports 8MB of SDRAM at up to 125 MHz memory clock • 1/2/4/8-bits per pixel compact palletized textures • Video module interface (VMI) to MPEG and video decoder • 170 MHz RAMDAC for 1400 x 1024 resolution • 16/32-bits per pixel quality non-palletized textures • Vertical blank interval for Intercast™ • DVD playback in real-time (30 fps) • Pallet formats in ARGB 565, 1555, or 444 • Tri-linear, bi-linear, and point-sampled filtering Memory Bus Interface • DX6 anistropic filtering • 64-bit SDRAM/SGRAM memory bus at 125 MHz clock • DX6 texture compression • Up to 8 MBytes of local frame buffer • Mip-mapping with multiple level-of-detail (LOD) • Supports 2Mx16, 1Mx16 and 512Kx16 memory calculations and perspective correction • Fully programmable timings for RAS, CAS, refresh, etc • Color keying for translucency USA Taiwan Hong Kong Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Headquarters) Trident Technologies, Inc. Trident Microsystems (Far East), Ltd. 1090 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 3F No.51 Lane 188 Rueiguang Rd., (Hong Kong Branch) Phone: (408) 991-8800 Neihu, Taipei, Taiwan Unit 1, 18F, Tower III, Enterprise Square, 9 Sheung Yuet Road, Fax: (408) 733-1438 Phone: 886-2-2657-7686 Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Web site: www.tridentmicro.com Fax: 886-2-2627-8727 Phone: 852-2756-9666 Web site: www.trident.com.tw Fax: 852-2796-9849 PRODUCT BRIEF • NOVEMBER 2001 ©2001. All rights reserved. Trident and its logo are registered trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are acknowledged and are properties of their respective owners.