Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: rreiss@eso.org (Roland Reiss)
Subject: Re: Transputer VME board?
Organization: European Southern Observatory
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 16:39:30 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.163930.21772@eso.org>

In article 17072@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, Martin Feuerstack <feuerstack@physi.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
>I'm in search for a transputer VMEbus master. I already have Parsytec's 
>BBK-V2 in use but it doesn't fulfill my requirements, mainly, because it
>is only available with up to 2MByte of memory and has very poor VME
>performance.
>I would like to buy one or to boards that fulfill the following
>requirements:
>- 8MByte of memory, that can be accessed from VMEbus, too, i. e.
>dual-ported RAM
>- reasonable transfer speed from the memory to the VMEbus, 8MByte/s at
>least!
>- must work *reliably* together with other masters, namely Motorla's
>MVME167 and HP's RISC VME boards.
>- should be compatible (at least adaptable) to Parsytec's reset scheme.
>
>Does anybody know such a board?
>
Try Inmos' IMS B016-4 which has 16 MByte dual-ported RAM and a T801 with 256kByte
private RAM. Don't know how the Parsytec reset scheme looks like, the B016 offers
4 link interfaces with 4 independent service signal ports, so you can connect up to 4 transputer systems (similar to the BBK-S4 I think).

The board works fine with FORCE CPU2E (Sparc2 plus VMEbus, SunOS 4.1.x) _and_ Motorola MVME167 (under VxWorks).

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