DESIGN GUIDELINES
6. DESIGN GUIDELINES
6.1. TYPICAL APPLICATIONS
The STPC Atlas is well suited for many
applications. Some of the possible
implementations are described below.
6.1.1. THIN CLIENT
These protocols have room for dedicated data
channels in case the terminal is not ’thin’ and can
execute locally some applications, hence
optimizing the bandwidth usage. For example, if a
terminal has browsing or MPEG decoding
capability, the server will provide internet source
files or MPEG streaming.
A Thin-Client is a terminal running ICATM (Citrix)
or RDPTM (Microsoft) protocol. The display is
computed by the server and sent in a compressed
way to the terminal for display. The same
streaming approach is used for sending the
keyboard/mouse/USB data to the server.
The same hardware can run X-terminal protocol
and can be reconfigured by the server when
booting on the network by uploading a different
OS and application.
Figure 6-1. Thin-Client - Block Diagram
SDRAM
FLASH
LAN
MPEG
DECODER
64
16
PCI
CCIR
IDE / PCI
AUDIO
STPC
ATLAS
VGA
TFT
USB
IEEE1284
Kbd / Mouse
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