Package: MonitorTool Filed on [Indigo]<ISL>Documentation>MonitorTool.Tioga
Maintainer: Ken Pier
Date: June 1, 1983 3:14 pm
DF file: [Indigo]<ISL>Top>MonitorTool.DF
Purpose: For configuring monitors with various screen sizes and refresh rates
Tool Description:
Menus:
Calculateuse the input parameters to calculate and display the output variables
Set — calculate and send the result to the display head
TurnOff — turn off color viewers
Buttons (Input parameters):
screen widthenter the number of visible pictures per line
screen heightenter the number of visible lines per frame
refresh rateenter the number of frames per second (interlace is assumed)
hBlank timeenter the number of microseconds of horizontal blanking, measured
from the leading edge of horizontal sync.
vBlank timeenter the number of microseconds of vertical blanking, measured
from the leading edge of vertical sync.
Labels (Output Variables):
field timemilliseconds per field
field freq1/(field time), Hz
line timemicroseconds per line
line freq1/(line time), KHz
pixel timenanoseconds per pixel
pixel freq1/(pixel time), Mhz
MUL, DIV, vertical ctrl, horizontal ctrl: calculated parameters needed by the display head