26 May
2011
26 May
'11
12:51 p.m.
On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:50:42 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
As you know, VME boards are standard double Eurocard form factor. it
makes snese to use soemthing like that.
IIRC, the B011 has a noraml VME interface on the 'A' (upper)
connector but the 'B' connector carried the transputer links.
The C004 is a bit like a 'telephone exchange' for trnasputer links :-).
It lets you reconfigure how the trnasputers are interconencted. The
interface on said chjip to load the conenciton data is ... a transputer
link. Makea lot of sense, I guess...
You _need_ a host adapter....
-tony
Is the B012 jut a TRAM motherboard then, taking
power form the VME bus
and bringing the links out on (I asusme) the B connector?
As far as I understood
the docs the B012 is just a TRAM carrier with
some C004 link switch chips. It is VME form factor, but the pinout of