Features
- AT compatible bus to VIC / VMVbus interface
- Complete remote VME / CAMAC & FASTBUS crates monitoring
- Multicrate extension capability (up to 15 crates)
- Real-time interrupt handling
- Supports VIC / VMV multi-master operation
- Up to 100 m total bus connection length
General Description
The VBAT 8218 is a one-slot IBM PC format card which contains all the necessary hardware to implement a direct connection to any VME, FASTBUS or CAMAC system from a PC/AT compatible computer.
Access to remote resources is provided through a combination of direct addressing and address shift registers in the form of MOV commands. Data are transferred bidirectionally in D08 / D16 / D32 mode. Connections occur through two 64-pin flat cable connectors.
The VMV 6412 acts as a VIC / VMV arbitration daisy chain adaptor when several VIC / VMV masters can take the bus simultaneously. This adaptor is not useful if you have only one VIC / VMV master in your system.
Software
- A DLL interface for Visual / Basic provides a Windows support of the VBAT 8218.
- A C library is also available for an easy integration of the VIC environment from the VBAT 8218 in your application.
Features
- NuBus (one "Super Slot Space") to VICbus interface
- Mechanical and electrical compatibility with Macintosh II, Quadra, PowerMac
- Complete remote VME / CAMAC & FASTBUS crates monitoring
- Multicrate capability (up to 15 crates)
- MMU routing allowing multitasking and multiprocessing
- Broadcast and broadcall over all the crates
- Connections up to 100 meters
- Supports VIC multimaster operations
- Interrupt structure between VME and NuBus
- High-speed transaction, up to 8 Mbytes/s
General Description
The MAC 7212A is an interface between the Apple NuBus and the VIC bus. The system allows a Macintosh to directly interface up to 15 physical VME / CAMAC & FASTBUS crates on the same branch through CES appropriate interfaces. Access to the external crates is memory mapped on the NuBus.
The VMV 6412 acts as a VIC / VMV arbitration daisy chain adaptor when several VIC / VMV masters can take the bus simultaneously. This adaptor is not useful if you have only one VIC / VMV master in your system.
Software
A complete set of VIs (virtual instruments) is available for a Macintosh running LabVIEW, to access remote VIC resources, such as VME, FASTBUS or CAMAC crates, through CES interfaces. Libraries of VIs have been especially developed to control systems based on the FDL 8050 (Fast Data Link), and the RCB 8047 (VME Read-Out Controller).
Standalone applications developped by CES are also available.
Features
- Provides SUN to VICbus interface
- Connects up to 31 logical (20 physical) VME / CAMAC & FASTBUS crates on a distance up to 100 meters
- Interrupt structure between VIC and SBus
- SBus interrupter slave
- VICbus master and slave
- Broadcast and broadcall over the 31 crates
- Rerun acknowledge on the SBus
- Supports all aligned VIC and all SBus cycles
- Block transfer up to 16 LWords on both VIC and SBus
- MMU routing allowing multitasking and multiprocessing
- On-board EPROM for SBus identification
- Transaction speed up to 12 Mbytes/s (overhead = 200 ns)
- Double port (VIC, SBus) buffer memory (256 Kbytes SRAM) providing SBus memory extension and mailbox functions
General Description
The SVIC 7213 is an interface between the SUN Bus (SBus) and the VICbus. Associated with the appropriate interfaces, it provides a direct interface between up to 20 VME, CAMAC or FASTBUS crates and a SPARC station. The SVIC 7213 is "slave only" on the SBus, and master & slave on the VICbus.
A 256 Kbytes SRAM block, accessible from both SBus and VICbus, provides an interrupt structure between VME and SBus via mailbox functions, and is used as buffer memory during SBus / VIC transfers. Accesses to the remote crates are memory mapped on the SBus through a MMU structure (27 pages of 64 Kbytes).
Software
- The DSS 3104 / DSA 3109 are UNIX character device driver written by CES, to map the SVIC 7213 resources in the user space of a SPARC station under SUN OS / Solaris respectively. It allows several users to access simultaneously the interface, and handles interrupts without conflicts. In addition to the ioctl() system calls, a library is provided for VIC resources access.
- For configurations where the SVIC 7213 is coupled to a VCC 2117, a standard CAMAC ESONE library (LVO 3500) can be provided.
More about the VCC 2117 (Datasheet)
Features
- Two CAMAC slots
- VIC slave interface
- Full CAMAC CCA2 functionality. Auxiliary CAMAC controller (ACC). Supports ACL mode
- LAM interrupt handling either from the CPU or VIC interface. Supports LAM grader modules
- Interrupt structure between the local CPU and the VIC interface
- Optional MC 68030 25 MHz, including 1 Mbyte of EPROM, 512 Kbytes of private SRAM (or 1 to 16 Mbytes of private DRAM), and 512 Kbytes of dual port SRAM
- Optional MC 68882 FPU
- Optional Ethernet with buffered interface, direct Cheapernet output
- RS 232C port
- Front panel Reset, Abort, Z, C, Off-Line
- OS-9, VxWorks, Lynx-OS supported
General Description
The VCC 2117 CAMAC crate controller combines the benefits of the modular CAMAC system with modern technologies in a microprocessor design, and high-speed data transmission over a standardized parallel bus system.
The controller can be used as an auxiliary controller, in order to give a smooth migration from existing CAMAC systems to a state-of-the-art equipment. To uncouple the VICbus readout from the internal operation of the microprocessor, a dual port RAM has been implemented.
The processor part has resources to support a stand-alone operation under OS-9 with network connection over Ethernet, TCP/IP and NFS.
The CPU is optional. All resources can be accessed from the VIC interface. The VICbus can directly be mapped to the NAF-command bits and some auxiliary control bits. This leads to a very simple and economic implementation of the system without overhead, due to the use of a microprocessor and associated circuits.
Software
- An easy control and monitoring of CAMAC crates from Macintosh LabVIEW, is made possible thanks to a library of VIs (virtual instruments), available from CES. This library consists of standard CAMAC commands (VCC-Init, CDREG, 16- or 24-bit CSSA commands, QRepeat, AutoScan, LAMsync, ...).
- For configurations where the VCC 2117 is coupled to a SVIC 7213, a standard CAMAC ESONE library for SPARC station (LVO 3500) can be provided.
- CES OS-9 and Lynx-OS turn-key systems come with a complete environment for CAMAC systems integration.
- The VCC 2117 can be equipped with OS-9 and can communicate with other workstations either via OS-9 NET, over VICbus or Ethernet, or via TCP/IP over Ethernet.
- The VCC 2117 also supports Lynx-OS and VxWorks.
More about the VCC 2117 (Datasheet)
Features
- Power-up monitor and reset logic (including remote reset and reset button)
- On-line back panel switch and four LEDs for quick diagnostic display
- DIP switches and rotary encoder for crate number selection (between 0 and 31)
- Full VIC / VMV slave only compatibility, by using a CES standard ASIC chip
- VIC / VMV slave accesses in single D32 (only), and in block BLT D32 (only)
- VIC slave BLT D32 data read prefetch possibility (register selected)
- VIC 64 pins flat cables standard connectors with continuity
- VSB-like master logic for D32 (only), and BLT D32 (only) in all VSB spaces (system, I/O, alternate)
- VSB-like IHP interrupt handler, through VIC bus RORA protocol
General Description
The VFI 9214 interface has been designed for connecting the FVSBI 9210 (FASTBUS / VSB interface) to the VIC / VMV bus.
The VFI 9214 is a small board connected in the back of the FASTBUS backplane. It allows access to FASTBUS from a VIC master device (VME: VIC 8250 / VIC 8251, SUN: SVIC 7213, Apple Macintosh: MAC 7212, PC-AT: VBAT 8218, ...), through the VSB slave D32 port of the FVSBI 9210 FASTBUS interface.
The VFI 9214 is not a stand-alone FASTBUS module, but must be coupled to a FVSBI 9210.
Software
- A small library of FASTBUS calls is available on all CES OS-9 turn-key systems.
- An easy control and monitoring of FASTBUS crates from a Macintosh running LabVIEW is made possible thanks to a library of VIs (virtual instruments) written by CES. This library consists of standard FASTBUS routines (FBOPEN, FRC, FRDB, ...).