Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: lwb@et.byu.edu (Lyle Bingham)
Subject: Re: Link Interfacing
Date: 5 Oct 1994 21:57:59 GMT
Message-ID: <36v7h7$hkl@bones.et.byu.edu>

aaron mcdonough (aaron@arcadia.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
: Hi all,
: 	I am about to setup two transputer boards so they can talk to each 
: 	other. Both boards are mounted in PC hosts, one is a SPRINT board the
: 	other is a Quintek Fast9 board. The reason for conecting the two 
: 	boards is to include the SPRINT board(one T805) in the Quitek
: 	chain of processors. The current programming setup, includes a master 
: 	task (on the master processor of the Quintek board) and slave
: 	tasks running on the eight other slave processors. I want to place
: 	one of these "suspect" slave tasks on the SPRINT board so I can 
: 	utilise I/O capabilities on that host. 
: 
: Problem:
: 	The manuals I have for both boards and the 3L C compiler briefly 
: 	mention how this can be done. They also reference a technical note(18)
: 	from INMOS on link interfacing. Does anybody know how I might obtain 
: 	technical notes from INMOS here in Australia?
: 
: 	The connector on the back of the SPRINT board is a DB25 female,
: 	consisting of subsystem lines, PC Reset/Analyse/Error, Up/Down -
: 	Reset/Analyse/Error, 4 links in/out (one for the PC) and *5* ground 
: 	lines (why 5?). Is it a matter of simply connecting in's to out's and
: 	out's to in's for a link? I am also unsure as to how to use the 
: 	ground lines. How many ground lines must be used for a link?
: 
: 	I am  assuming from info. in the manual that I will have to connect 
: 	up's Reset/Analyse/Error to down's and visa versa. Will I need to use 
: 	the PC Reset/Analyse/Error on the SPRINT board for anything? On
: 	the Quitek board there are corresponding lines Host Reset/Analyse/Error
: 	of which their use is unclear from information in the manual.
: 
: 	Any help is greatly appreciated.
: 
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: Aaron McDonough			E-mail : aaron@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au
: Computer Science		        
: RMIT(Bundoora)
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The Inmos document you are seeking is found in the Transputer
Applications Notebook:  Systems & Performance, June 1989. pages
30 through 51.  

I would suggest you contact Hawke Electronics.  It may also be
available by mail from Singapore or Japan from the Inmos offices
there.
(I mean the Inmos/SGS Thomson Microelectronics offices)

Lyle
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