Functional Description; Overview - Motorola MVME3600 Series Programmer's Reference Manual

Functional Description

Overview

The MVME3600 series is a family of two-slot VME Processor Modules.
It consists of the MPC604 processor, the Raven PCI Bridge & Interrupt
Controller, the ECC Memory Controller Falcon chipset, 9MB of Flash
memory, 64MB to 1GB of ECC-protected DRAM, and a rich set of
features for support of I/O peripherals.
The MVME4600 series is a very similar series of two-slot VME Processor
Modules. It contains two MPC604 processors, and 64MB to 1GB of ECC-
protected DRAM.
I/O peripheral devices on the PCI bus are: SCSI chip, Ethernet chip,
graphics chip, Universe VMEbus interface ASIC, and one PMC slot.
Secondary SCSI and secondary Ethernet are optional. Functions provided
from the ISA bus are: a P1284/parallel port, two asynchronous serial ports,
two sync/async serial ports, a real-time clock, and counters/timers.
The MVME3600/4600 series board interfaces to the VMEbus via the P1
and P2 connectors, which use the new 5-row 160-pin connectors as
specified in the proposed VME64 Extension Standard. It also draws +5V,
+12V, and –12V power from the VMEbus backplane through these two
connectors. The 3.3V supply is regulated onboard from the +5V power.
Front panel connectors on the MVME3600/4600 series board include: a
three-row DB-15 connector for graphics, a 6-pin circular DIN connector
for the keyboard interface, a 6-pin circular DIN connector for the mouse
interface, and a 50-pin connector for an external floppy disk drive and
status hexadecimal LEDs. All signals for the serial ports, the P1284/printer
port, the SCSI interface, and the Ethernet interface are routed to P2.
There are two P2 I/O options supported by the MVME3600 series and the
MVME4600 series: MVME712M mode and MVME761 mode. The
MVME761 mode provides an enhanced P1284 parallel port interface and
full synchronous support for Serial Ports 3 and 4. The MVME712M
version provides backward compatibility with previous single board
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