ALT Software and Channel One Release Industrial ATI Radeon E4690 Embedded Graphics Processor

By DE Editors

ALT Software and Channel One International have announced the availability of an industrial-rated version of the ATI Radeon E4690 embedded graphics processor from AMD. Manufacturers of military, aerospace, industrial and other systems can utilize this -40°C to +105°C operating temperature range screened GPU to add high performance graphics and video support to their embedded devices.

ALT Software provides OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 1.3 and OpenGL SC DO-178B certifiable graphics drivers for the ATI Radeon E4690, with support for PowerPC and x86 processors and other real-time operating systems including Wind River VxWorks 653 and Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B as well as customer-proprietary RTOSes.

The ATI Radeon E4690 includes dual HD video streaming, a 128-bit memory interface and 512MB on-chip GDDR3 memory. Multiple GPUs can be combined. 

“ALT Software, AMD, and Channel One are working together to provide a complete embedded graphics solution for high reliability device manufacturers,” says Lee Melatti, vice president of Channel One International. “On the software side, ALT Software has been working with leading RTOS vendors to support the ATI Radeon E4690 with DO-178B certifiable drivers for their operating systems on a variety of hardware configurations.”

For more information, visit AMD, ALT Software and Channel One International.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.