Requirements
These boards are designed to conform to the requirements of the following
documents:
VMEbus Specification (IEEE 1014-87)
EIA-232-D Serial Interface Specification, EIA
SCSI Specification, ANSI
VSB Specification (IEEE 1096-1988)
Features
Features of the MVME166 are listed below.
MC68040 Microprocessor
4/8/16/32/64/128/256MB of 32-bit DRAM with ECC protection
1 MB of Flash memory and a download EPROM
128KB SRAM (with battery backup)
Status LEDs for FAIL, STAT, RUN, SCON, LAN, RPWR, SCSI, VME, TPWR and VSB
8K by 8 RAM and time of day clock with battery backup
RESET and ABORT switches
Four 32-bit tick timers for periodic interrupts
Watchdog timer
Eight software interrupts
I/O
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SCSI Bus interface with DMA
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Four serial ports with TTL buffers
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Centronics printer port
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Ethernet transceiver interface with DMA
VMEbus interface
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VMEbus system controller functions
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VMEbus to local bus interface (A24/A32,
D8/D16/D32 (D8/D16/D32/D64BLT) (BLT = Block Transfer))
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Local bus to VMEbus interface (A16/A24/A32, D8/D16/D32)
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VMEbus interrupter
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VMEbus interrupt handler
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Global CSR for interprocessor communications
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DMA for fast local memory - VMEbus transfers (A16/A24/A32,
D16/D32 (D16/D32/D64BLT))
VSB interface
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Local bus to VSB interface (A16/A24/A32, D8/D16/D32)
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VSB to local bus interface (A16/A24/A32, D8/D16/D32)
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Control and Status Register sets (Board CSRs accessible from both
local bus and VSB; local CSRs accessible from local bus)
(Includes Global CSR for IPC (General Purpose Registers 1 and 2))
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Local bus interrupter
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VSB interrupter and VSB interrupt handler
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Bidirectional write posting - local bus to VSB and VSB to local bus
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EVSB compatible
MVME166IG/D2
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