The On-Board List Processor

The VCC 2117B has been equipped with a powerful 68030 CPU running at 25 MHz and providing a local processing capability. The use of the List Processor reduces in a significant manner, the time needed to access CAMAC from a remote resource and frees its associated backplane for other activity.

CES has written "CESmon", a complete CAMAC monitor running on the VCC 2117 including:

• pROBE: the debugging tool for CISC based systems
• The List Processor: the purpose of this program is to execute CAMAC cycles or transactions according to the ESONE library and to store results of those calls in the Dual Port SRAM.
• The LANCE Monitor: this monitor is used to initialize the Ethernet network interface and for testing the Ethernet piggy back. It contains facilities for loading executable files from the network.
• The CAMAC Monitor: this monitor provides access to the CAMAC dataway in a very easy way, allowing the user to directly enter commands such as N4 A0 F0, ...

At power up, CESmon (EPROM resident) performs boot diagnostic, device initialization and some functionality tests. The different results are stored in a control block which is a structure located in the global SRAM (DPRAM). This control block is accessible even if the CPU has boot problems.

• Introduction
• Features
• Typical Configuration
• VCC Architecture
• The VIC Interface
• The CAMAC Interface
• The On-Board List Processor
• The On-Board Ethernet
• Interrupt Structure
• Specifications, Ordering Information, Associated Modules & Software

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