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A host of powerful software solutions expertly

designed to maximise game performance.

Create. Customise. Optimise.

Never compromise.

Quixant’s

Software Hub

Globally. Creatively. Strategically. Technologically. There are no limits with Quixant.

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INTRODUCTION

“ Our technology tears down boundaries so you can

unleash your creativity. Our hardware and software

delivers stability so your games can rock the

industry. Our partnership empowers performance

so you can crack every opportunity”.

Just like you, we want more players

playing your games.

By working together, we can immerse

players into new worlds and make every

play exceptional and last longer.

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All Quixant gaming hardware platforms

have Quixant’s Software Hub, a portfolio

of software solutions, embedded as standard

and at no additional cost.

About Quixant’s software solutions

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Gaming specific

software solutions

Specifically designed to meet the requirements of all global gaming markets.

Included as standard

Embedded on all Quixant gaming hardware platforms at no additional cost.

Enhanced hardware performance

Maximises the performance of our powerful and stable hardware platforms, enabling our customers to create the best games on the planet and deliver exceptional gaming experiences.

Easy to integrate and highly

customisable

Seamlessly integrate all elements of your game and tailor the solutions to your business’s individual needs.

Ensure regulatory compliance

and game security

Compliant and secure solutions that meet the regulations of all global gaming markets and protect your game and intellectual property.

Save money

They can directly replace the cost of third-party licenses such as Bink or G2S and SAS solutions.

Enables maximum creativity

Allows game developers to unleash their creativity and develop exceptional game content, never being limited by hardware performance.

True gaming expertise

Supplemented with technical support from the team who develop Quixant’s technology, who have years of experience of supporting global customers throughout the game development and launch process.

Get ahead of the game

The solutions expediate and enhance game development and allow customers to launch world-class leading products in record time.

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Development solutions

Expertly designed, highly configurable, and easy-to-use solutions that will optimise your game development and delivery processes.

Multimedia solutions

Powerful and easy-to-use solutions that enable you to develop and deliver unrivalled immersive game experiences with the ultimate audio, visual and lighting.

Security solutions

A host of powerful, highly customisable and compliant security solutions expertly designed to protect gaming systems and intellectual property.

Protocol solutions

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G2S

Quixant’s

G2S Solution

Quixant’s widely adopted G2S solution provides a secure and compliant medium to connect with this increasingly adopted casino accounting communication protocol.

DEBUG

Quixant’s

Debugging Solution

A superior debugging solution which enables you to efficiently trace, isolate and address bugs both in a test and live gaming environment without impacting the performance of your game.

PLAY

Quixant’s Video

Content Solution

The solution enables you to reduce the impact of pre-rendered video decoding, play more video content simultaneously, deliver the highest resolution content, and enable smoother game play.

SAS

Quixant’s

SAS Solution

Quixant’s extensively used SAS solution has been developed to give game developers a reliable, out-of-the-box, yet customisable solution that ensures compliance with GSA SAS 6.02 protocol.

ILLUMINATE

Quixant’s Cabinet

LED solution

A powerful solution dedicated to game artists that enables you to bring your content to life with customised cabinet lighting sequences.

AMPLIFY

Quixant’s Audio

Amplification Solution

An efficient and powerful solution that enables you to deliver to the highest quality audio and truly unrivalled, immersive gaming experiences.

BOOT

Quixant’s Secure

BIOS Solution

Developed by a specialist team with 10+ years of experience of creating, testing, and implementing a secure and compliant BIOS solution, this out-of-the-box solution enables you to validate your games up to 50% faster.

PROTECT

Quixant’s Suite

of Security Solutions

A host of powerful, compliant security features that are easy to implement and highly

customisable to the requirements of the markets you operate in.

AUTHENTICATE

Quixant’s

Authenticity Solution

Protect all elements of your hardware and software with Quixant’s secure and powerful authentication solution.

PROTOCOL

SECURITY

DEVELOPMENT

MULTIMEDIA

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DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS

DEBUG

Quixant’s Debugging Solution

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Spend time creating game changing content, not developing

debugging solutions. Integrated into our platforms as standard,

Quixant debug is a superior debugging system which enables

you to efficiently trace, isolate and address bugs both in a test

or live gaming environment.

Quixant’s ATS is a built-in, customisable hardware-based tracing system that allows remote tracing of code execution and used hardware resources.

This is a similar concept as the Car Health Check system: connect an external device to the car engine to check status of the car and troubleshoot issues without changing anything in the car.

The key advantages of Debug over traditional tracing and debugging techniques are: – The metrics and the signalling are handled by the hardware module

and don’t consume CPU resources

– Built-in metrics are gathered by normal gaming devices execution, so data collection does not impact the hardware performance

– Tracing enabling, disabling and trigger handling can be done without recompiling the software modules

– You can event trace production software

– You can monitor multiple systems at the same time

As part of our Debug solution, Quixant provide two sub modules, QSys and QSensor. QSys

Allows users of any Quixant product to retrieve static information on their hardware and software.

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QUIXANT’S SOFTWARE HUB

DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS

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When developing world-class games, Quixant Play is the ideal

solution to create the most detailed and vibrant content.

The solution enables you to reduce the impact of pre-rendered

video decoding, deliver the highest resolution content, and

enable smoother game play and more video content to be

played simultaneously.

Quixant Play is a unified solution for video decoding and rendering (VDR) and overcomes the common limitations of other video players. Included at no additional cost on Quixant’s gaming hardware platforms, the solution eliminates the need for costly third-party licenses, or the cost of developing solutions in house.

Quixant Play

– Leverages UVD hardware acceleration

– Provides codec support for Alpha channel in videos

– Supports synchronised playback of multiple media sources, such as videos, audio and led outputs

The solution enables you to manage multiple streams of high-quality video content of up to 4K with a high compression rate, while keeping computer resource usage at a minimum and streamlining the development process. Quixant Play works in tandem with Illuminate, Quixant’s Cabinet LED solution, providing both automatic or managed integration of LED output during the playback of video streams. Quixant Play can be used as a stand-alone player or can be integrated into games for the playback of video animations with Alpha channel. In both cases, Quixant Play codec leverages GPU hardware acceleration, leaving the CPU resources free to perform other tasks, which on average uses less than 8% CPU load for 1080p 60FPS video streams.

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MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS

Quixant’s Illuminate software enables you to bring your content

to life with customised cabinet lighting sequences. Dedicated

to game artists, the effective and powerful solution enables

you to create and play back sequences in both a test and

real-time environment.

Synchronise LEDs across multiple machines for maximum effect and light up the room, creating the most memorable gaming experiences on the planet.

Embedded LED Controller

Quixant’s hardware accelerated LED controller and interface is embedded in all of the latest Quixant platforms, allowing users to manage LED strips directly from the dedicated interface. It is managed at the user level through the Illuminate software library and includes support for a wide range of LED strips and high-current RGB LEDs.

LED Controller

A discrete LED controller which can operate autonomously or stream LED light effects, from data received from a PC via a USB interface. Multiple controllers can be connected in a chain to power synchronised LED sequences across a bank of cabinets.

Ground-breaking control of game sound in a compact offering.

Quixant’s audio amplification solution works in harmony

with our world-leading hardware and enables you to deliver

your customers a truly unrivalled, immersive game experience.

About Quixant’s Audio Amplifier

– Dolby digital audio streaming by USB/optical/coaxial – Up to two channels ADC input with 16 bit

– Codec output up to 8 channels with 16 bit – Passive aluminium heatsink (fanless) – Noise distortion SNR>95dB – Efficient operation class D

– Standard 5.1 with optical 7.1 channels – 12V/24V power input

ILLUMINATE

Quixant’s Cabinet LED solution

AMPLIFY

Quixant’s Audio Amplification Solution

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QUIXANT’S SOFTWARE HUB

PROTOCOL SOLUTIONS

Ensuring compliance is key in the gaming industry but can be

time consuming and costly. That’s why Quixant’s SAS solution

was developed – to give game developers a reliable solution

that ensures compliance with GSA SAS 6.02 protocol.

Field-proven and extensively used worldwide, Quixant’s SAS solution is easy to integrate within your technology stack, highly customisable and seamlessly interfaces with different SAS hosts. Using the on board NVRAM, the solution can store the state of the machine during runtime and if a power outage occurs, any incomplete operations can be resumed.

Included as standard with all Quixant platforms, it’s a must have solution that will give peace of mind that your games are compliant and will save you development time or the cost of third-party solution licenses.

– Turnkey SAS integration with Quixant API framework – Multiple backend integrations supported

– Proven and tested by certification labs and in live casino floors – Dedicated SAS support from Quixant to tailor the solution to your

integration requirements – Updates and interop testing

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Widely implemented, Quixant’s G2S solution is a robust and reliable

tool to manage your G2S security and compliance requirements.

Field-proven and tested against Radblue simulation tools, it provides

a secure and compliant medium to connect with this increasingly

adopted casino accounting communication protocol.

The solution is highly customisable to your individual business needs and is designed to interface with multiple hosts, enabling you to connect with up to 6 at once.

Included as standard on all Quixant platforms, you can save the time and cost associated with developing your own solutions or using third-party licenses. With compliance covered, you can let your creativity run free and create games that rock the industry.

– Quixant supports the standard G2S v1.1, extensions and v2.1 classes – Quixant offers support and expert knowledge throughout the G2S

application protocol journey – High level of integration and interop

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SAS

Quixant’s SAS solution

G2S

Quixant’s G2S solution

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SECURITY SOLUTIONS

With Quixant’s secure BIOS validation & acceleration solution

you can validate your games up to 50% faster. Developed by

a specialist team with 10+ years of experience of creating, testing,

and implementing a secure and compliant BIOS solution, you

will have the comfort that this essential function is taken care of.

Flexible architecture designed to fit around your requirements, it enables rapid hash-based validation of both the BIOS and mass storage devices. Fast, secure, and effective. Make your incredible games the centre of attention.

Quixant’s Secure BIOS is a BIOS/UEFI solution that manages the secure boot process and can:

– Detect changes to BIOS and storage devices

– Create a trusted chain, where every element that is going to run is checked by the previous one

– Unlike UEFI, BIOS binary does not change during the boot process – Be removed for physical validation against a GM (Gold Master) image Quixant Boot is a patented technology which meets the need for acceptable security in reasonable time, which is common across modern operating systems.

We know that protecting your systems and intellectual property

is an essential part of your game development and delivery

process. But your time should be spent on creating the best

gaming content, not on developing these vital security features.

Quixant are here to help with a host of powerful and compliant

security features that can be customised as required. Easy to

implement and operate, you can adopt these features based

on the requirements of the markets you operate in.

Quixant’s suite of security solutions include, AES hardware engine, logging processor, TPM chip, anti-tamper, and write-once keys. Whatever the market, whatever the game and requirements, there are solutions that will ensure that your games are secure, so your time is freed up to do what you do best. Craft the greatest games on the planet.

AES Hardware Engine

Quixant AES hardware engine provides DMA-based hardware AES encryption and decryption.

A standard set of keys are programmed into all Quixant systems by default. Please contact your Quixant Sales representative to explore having unique custom keys programmed into your systems when developed.

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Quixant’s Suite of Security Solutions

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QUIXANT’S SOFTWARE HUB

SECURITY SOLUTIONS

TPM

Quixant gaming platforms can integrate a TPM chip, enabled by the Quixant BIOS, for code and data verification and encryption. Any TPM enabled OS can use the TPM chip, through standard APIs or system tools, to encrypt data and code, or to take advantage of TPM-based security features, like Trusted GRUB Bootloader or Bitlocker Secure Startup.

Anti-Tamper Keys

Anti-tamper keys are 8 32-bytes keys that can be written and read during normal operation but are automatically deleted when an intrusion is detected by the triggering of a specific intrusion switch.

Keys can be accessed and configured through a software API, which in turn can optionally be set to work only with authenticated access.

One of the anti-tamper keys is a write-once, lifetime key.

Protect all elements of your hardware and software with Quixant’s

secure and powerful authentication solution. This customisable

feature locks all aspects of the game when the machine is restarted

and requires a password authentication to take place to enable

usage. Get the necessary assurance that your game is secure

so you can unleash your creativity to focus on developing exceptional

games and gaming experiences.

The solution enables you to authenticate the software against the hardware and vice versa and using the available licenses you can enable or disable specific games and features. You can also enable software authentication so that all gaming features are disabled until a password authentication takes place.

The software authentication feature is a hardware implemented lock of gaming PC platform gaming devices, (digital I/O, NVRAM and the AES engine), until an authentication has taken place. The solution:

– Locks the hardware at each machine restart

– The machine can be used as a standard PC before the authentication has taken place – A password must be provided, through a dedicated API, to unlock the devices – The standard implementation locks the digital Input/outputs, NVRAM and the AES engine

Unique Hardware ID

All Quixant devices have a Unique hardware ID: an identification number which is guaranteed to be unique among all Quixant PC platforms. It can be used for device traceability, registration and licensing, but additionally, it can be used as an input parameter for cryptographic operations.

The unique Hardware ID is marked on each board during production.

Protected EEPROM

The protected EEPROM feature is a non-volatile memory space where authentication is required before access is allowed. Quixant’s EEPROM capacity ranges from 1 to 8 Kbits. The chip is soldered to the gaming hardware platform and implements an industry-standard challenge and response secure hash algorithm. The software solutions communicate with the chip through I2C protocol.

Game software

Hardware

Lock SW to HW

SW will work only if a genuine HW is discovered – TPM

– Secure EEPROM – Serial number

– Logging processor HW keys

Lock HW to SW

HW will work only if a genuine SW is discovered – Authentication

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The essential link between Quixant’s

Gaming Hardware platform and its

embedded software. We deliver the

critical functionalities, which are easy

to integrate, so you benefit from enhanced

software features that maximise the

performance of your hardware, and

can focus your efforts on delivering the

ultimate gaming experiences.

NVRAM

Quixant’s Non-Volatile Memory Solution Non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) is a memory that saves stored data regardless of whether the platform’s power is on or off, which is used for game meters (e.g. coins in, game won) and other critical information.

Quixant’s customers use NVRAM for regulatory requirements to ensure game reboots are reliable, consistent and recovery is managed without any interruption to the game cycle. NVRAM is similar to a SSD, with some differences:

– NVRAM is faster but has a smaller capacity (Megabytes VS Gigabytes)

– NVRAM has infinite endurance; SSD has a limited number of writes – Some type model of NVRAM

needs batteries

Quixant NVRAM solution offers key functionalities, such as the Checksum calculation, memory copy, memory verification and data mirroring in different memory banks. Quixant also provides alternative options for storing smaller amounts of data which are embedded in the platform.

FPGA Integration

Quixant’s Gaming Features

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is an integrated electronic circuit that can be programmed to implement basic hardware functionalities such as the NVRAM, digital I/O, LED, serial ports, ATS, AES security engine and other security features, which are not available on a standard computer.

Logging Processor Integration

Quixant’s Security Processor

The Logging Processor is a battery-backed microcontroller which monitors and tracks important system events which are a key security element in the GLI specifications, and a mandatory requirement.

The regulatory gaming security features the Logging Processor implements are: – Intrusion supervision: Supervising

the cabinet doors and case doors – Precise real-time clock (RTC) – System event log: Managed even

when the system is off

The logging processor also monitors battery charging levels, provides a hardware watchdog which allows you to reset the system if it malfunctions and main power handling and supervision, allowing you to turn the system on or off.

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PARTNERING WITH QUIXANT

Here to support you throughout your

game development journey to ensure

seamless integration of all elements

of your game and enhanced performance.

Technology expertise

Direct access to or global support teams who conceptualise and develop Quixant’s software solutions.

Global Scale; local expertise

Dedicated technical teams across the globe based in US, Asia, Europe, and Australia to support game integration efforts.

Customer portal

Our secure customer portal provides additional support with downloadable software, documentation, example code and whitepapers.