17 Nov
2017
17 Nov
'17
6:42 p.m.
On 2017-11-17 8:55 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 11/17/2017 07:34 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
For a nice survey of buses, including those two: "Digital Bus Handbook",
Joseph di Giacomo.
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=83494
On 11/17/2017 7:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
You might also take a look at Multibus and VME, if you just want to see
how others did it.
One key question is whether it should be asynchronous, as the Unibus
is, or synchronous.
I thought synchronous would make for a smaller/simpler design,
but
could be wrong.
A synchronous version of the Unibus would be
quite easy; all the
...
It does not have to be fast.? I rather thought, "what is the simplest
multi-cpu shared bus that could be easily understood by folks and
allow them to focus on multi-processing education, not bus understanding"
Jim
Jon