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Quantum3D, Inc. has introduced its Sentiris 5140 XMC mezzanine card, which is a COTS graphics module, designed for use in general computing applications as well as air, ground and maritime vehicles in both military and civilian applications.

Built using AMD's latest Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), the ATI Radeon HD 3650, the Sentiris 5140 delivers image quality and performance that are said to be unparalleled in the industry. This is essential for target recognition and for "man-in-the-loop" training scenarios.

The 5140 leverages Quantum3D's power-management technologies to reduce power consumption and heat dissipation. In addition, this new Sentiris model meets the shock, vibration, temperature and other requirements of MIL-STD-810F, making it well suited for the harsh and demanding environmental conditions posed by military and civilian field-computing implementations.

The Sentiris 5140 also ushers in a new era of General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) that enables computation in addition to visualization. GPGPU is said to provide greater processing power-per-watt, compared to traditional processors.

Embedded applications can benefit from the high-performance per watt of AMD's ATI Radeon GPUs. By using simple C extensions, developers can now access the massive parallel processing power of these GPUs for embedded stream computing and visualization.