Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk
Reply-To: J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk (J.C.Highfield)
Subject: A transputer emulator
Summary: T414 emulation on a PowerMac
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 19:03:49 GMT
Message-ID: <Cs9zMD.8tp@lut.ac.uk>

I have recently finished writing a transputer emulator. It was intended
as a migration route away from transputers, but I seem to have already
found other ways of doing that....

If anyone is interested in trying the emulator, send me email and I will
see about getting it onto the network. Be warned - it has only received
testing on a number of custom transputer applications and will probably
break the first time someone tries a program not compiled with TDS3 or
Inmos ANSI C.

Currently the emulator has the following features:

    t414 instruction set
    2M transputer memory
    simple 'iserver' compatible I/O
    runs programs as if invoked by 'iserver -se -sb bootfile'

    *** currently ONLY Power Macintosh version ***

Performance on a PowerMac 6100/60 is about 1/15th of a 20MHz t414b. I hope
to make it a little faster in the future.

Julian

J.C.Highfield@lut.ac.uk
Dept. Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology


