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By Martin Timmerman, Editor-in-Chief of Real-Time Magazine, Real-Time Consult
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The
Right Bus In The Right Place - A Tutorial (Part I)
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A lot of parallel busses are in use today. Some of them are competitive, others are complementary. The misuse of a bus may have dramatic results in a project. This paper explains different profiles of bus use. A system architect should always take into account the basic rules and reduce the risk of bad system behaviour.
By Martin Timmerman, Editor-in-Chief of Real-Time Magazine, Real-Time Consult.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.6
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The ABC Of PowerPC An Embedded Developer's Guide
The PowerPC has emerged as one of the most talked about microprocessor families in the embedded systems market. More importantly, The PowerPC partners have taken care to address “embeddability” issues on several levels. The PowerPC architecture embodies a design philosophy that has a profound impact on development tool chains and application engineering processes. These more powerful, yet more complex architectures create both new opportunities and new problems for the embedded systems developer.
By Geoff Revill, Managing Director, Software Development Systems Ltd.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.12
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PowerPC - The Best Choice Processor For Real-Time Applications
Since its introduction in 1992, the PowerPC processor has proven to be a perfect fit for real-time applications. Three primary factors contribute to this conclusion: 1) it is ideally suited for use in 6U, VME applications; 2) its developers have committed to a continuing line of PowerPC processors; and 3) it is perfectly suited for use in symmetric multiprocessing.
By Don Nokl, Real-Time Opportunities Manager, Concurrent Computer Corporation.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.28
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New Challenges In Telco Applications Require More Flexibility
By Richard Pedreau, Director of SPARClet Family Marketing, Temic Semiconductor Corp.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.20
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Emancipating VMEbus - Turning Slaves Into Masters
By Dave Horton, Bus Interface Products Manager, Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.32
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Techniques To Achieve Real-Time Performance In DSP And Data Acquisition
VME Systems
Designing real-time systems performance into signal processing and data acquisition VME systems requires careful attention to many design factors including workstation selection, software development tools, planning computational tasks, defining data flow mechanism and optimizing data rates. This article discusses these design factors in more detail.
By Rodger Hosking, Vice President, Pentek, Inc.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.36
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Designing A High Performance VMEbus Interface For A Multiprocessor
SBC
In many respects, the VMEbus interface logic on a multiprocessor architecture differs from more classical single processor designs. This article describes how this is addressed by the VMEbus interface of a multiprocessor SPARC1 system: the Themis Computer SPARC 20MP.
By Philippe Weber, Product Marketing Manager, Themis Computer Europe.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.41
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PCI - The Bus That Glues?
PCI has exploded with a diversity of boards, chips, and systems that promote high performance interoperability. While there is, indeed, much improved inter-connection with respect to earlier busses, not all performance expectations will always be met. PCI offers a number of “tuning” opportunities that are available on a per device basis. This paper presents design experiences in developing a complex system where PCI bridges and devices are used. An order of magnitude change in system performance by changing configuration fields is analysed, and some general implications in the use of PCI are discussed.
By Mark Bronson, Director of R & D, Aeon Systems, Inc.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.45
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A Transparent Switching Fabric For PCI
By Bob Blau, Senior System Architect and Barry Isenstein, Vice President & Director of Strategic Marketing, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.57
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A New Standard For Intelligent I/O Design In Real-Time Applications With
PCI Systems
This article discusses Real-Time I/O design with IxWorks for PCI. The aim of the I/O design is to improve performance but most of all make it possible to have a number of different I/O adapters work with a common driver.
By Claude Garcia, Technical Marketing Engineer for Europe, Wind River Systems Europe.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.72
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Interfacing VMEbus And PCIbus - The ALMA Bridge
This article discusses the ALMA Bridge, a connection between the PCI World and the VME World. The emergence of PCI in the PC market will bring high volume and low cost PCI components, and will directly benefit embedded computers as well as VME systems. ALMA VME/PCI bridge brings an answer to solving the dual VME constraint.
By Robert Nègre, Technical Director , CETIA.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.49
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Building The Bridge
By Richard O'Connor, Responsible for product development and Jonathan Morris, Director of marketing & Business, Tundra Semiconductor Corporation.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.62
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ALMA A Highly Programmable PCI To VMEbus Bridge
By Claude Sitbon, Design Team Leader and Gerard Boudon, Program Manager, IBM France
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.67
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Modern SCSI Controllers And Real-Time Applications
By Donald Palmer, Project Manager, General Micro Systems.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.77
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Using RISC In Embedded Control Without The Cost Penalty
This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using RISC processors in Embedded Control. The article situates the problems and proposes further in the article some procedures that could serve as possible solutions.
By Liam Goudge, Product Manager and Dave Jaggar, Advanced RISC Machines (ARM).
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.81
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Real-Time Without Clocks?
By Steve Furber, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.88
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Meeting New Real-Time Systems Requirements For The Transport Sector Through
Inter-Industry Co-Operation
This article describes the rationale behind tha creation of theUser Group fro Embedded Systems in the Automotive & Aerospace Industries - SURGE - Transport - specifically created to promote such inter-industry co-operation in the efficient development of Real-Time embedded systems to meet new applications’ demands.
By George Duncan from ARTTIC International Management Services and Aldo Borrione from Centro Ricerche Fiat and Manfred Möllenhoff from Daimler-Benz Aerospace & Dornier Satellitensysteme.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.92
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The Real-Time Behavior Of Multithreaded Processors
By Dimitris Lioupis, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras and by Sotiris Milios, Computer Technology Institute.
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.98
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Advertisement Index
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Agenda
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Company References
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Index - Overview of all Articles Published In Real-Time Magazine For 1993
& 1994 & 1995 & 1996
BusInterfacing - 96/4 - P.109
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