Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: schedan@eskimo.com (Daniel Scheurell)
Subject: Re: Transputer VME board?
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: 12 Mar 94 20:09:27 GMT
Message-ID: <CMKIny.2y6@eskimo.com>

Roland Reiss (rreiss@eso.org) wrote:
: 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).

Works fine with FORCE CPU37ZBE (MC68030, VME Master, PDOS) too.

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Dan Scheurell
schedan@eskimo.com
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