D.20 Input/Output Peripheral Compatibility - GE D20 Installation And Operation Manual

D20/D200
Installation and Operations Guide
Product Combinations
D.20 When using the D20ME with the older vintages of the D.20 peripherals, there are
Input/Output some exceptions that apply:
Peripheral
•
The newest design of the peripherals has a jumper, which allows you to select
Compatibility
between Shunt or Series capacitors.
•
You need to change the older vintage of the D20 backplane (vintage 4A or older)
to a new backplane (vintage 5A or newer), and set a jumper to use shunt caps for
the peripherals.
•
If the EPLDs on the peripherals are older than V1.5, you need to upgrade them
to PERFPAL 1.5. DO NOT upgrade them to newer versions of the PERFPAL, as
they are not 100% backward compatible.
•
Special arrangements need to be made with GE manufacturing to obtain
PERFPAL V1.5, which are not kept in stock.
The communication statistics on the D.20 link will never be as good as they are with
new peripherals, but they should not be any worse than they were in the existing
system.
PCOMMONs should match the version of base software being used.
Use the following table to check the Base compatibility and Minimum BootROM for
Peripheral
Compatibility: D.20 Peripherals boards.
Table 2
Product Vintage
Vintage 01A-16A
D20A
WESDAC
Vintage 17A-20A
(511-0101)
Vintage 21A, 23A-
current
Vintage 22A (Note 1)
Vintage 01A-12A
D20K
WESDAC
Vintage 13A-14A, 16A
(508-0101)
Vintage 15A (Note 1)
Vintage 17A-current
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Release D.20 Communications
Date Design Detail
Shunt Cap / Perpal 1 V1.5
97/05/13 Series Cap / Perfuni V0.0
98/09/18 Jumper Caps (Shunt/Series)
/ Perfask V0.0 See note 3
98/09/29 Series Cap / Perpal 1 V1.5
Shunt Cap / Perpal 1 V1.5
96/11/12 Series Cap / Perfuni V0.0
97/03/11 Series Cap / Perpal 1 V1.5
98/07/02 Jumper Caps (Shunt/Series)
/ Perfask V0.0 See note 3
994-0078-2.00-7
GE Energy
Base Minimum
Compatibility BootROM
All Any BootROM
D20 base 3.51 P002 3.05
and newer P002-2 3.05 or
P002-3 1.00
All Any BootROM
All Any BootROM
All Any BootROM
D20 base 3.51 P002 3.05
and newer P002-2 3.05 or
P002-3 1.00
All Any BootROM
All Any BootROM
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