FORCE SPARC CPU-5VT/16-100-2
The SPARC/CPU-5VT implements the capabilities of Sun Microsystems’ SPARCstation 5 workstation on a single-slot VMEbus board. It is a sin- gle-board computer combining workstation performance and functional- ity with the ruggedness and expandability of an industry standard 6U VMEbus card. Using SBus modules, the board becomes a VMEbus two- slot solution.
Through a combination of processing power with a full set of I/O inter- faces including two fast SCSI devices, two Ethernet devices, floppy disk, serial I/O and keyboard/mouse ports, the SPARC/CPU-5VT becomes a high performance cost effective solution for embedded applications.
The SPARC/CPU-5VT is a VMEbus board based on the microSPARC-II CPU chip and on the FGA-5000 VMEbus-to-SBus interface gate array.
- The microSPARC-II chip is a highly integrated implementation of the SPARC RISC microprocessor. It interfaces directly to a 64-bit wide DRAM on the one side and to the SBus on the other side. Two mem- ory module slots are available on each SPARC/CPU-5VT enabling memory expansion with 16 or 64 Mbyte DRAM modules (MEM-5).
- The FGA-5000 provides the SPARC/CPU-5VT with high speed VMEbus transfer capabilities for standard transfers and extended 64- bit MBLT transfers.
This complete 64-bit VMEbus interface and two industry standard SBus sockets enable the expansion of memory, I/O and processing performance via a broad range of off-the-shelf solutions.
Every SPARC/CPU-5VT includes an EPROM based monitor/debugger called OpenBootΤΜ, which provides the functionality of the boot device as well as the setup for the VMEbus interface. The software support for the SPARC/CPU-5VT ranges from SolarisΤΜ, the most popular imple- mentation of the UNIX operating system, to sophisticated hard real-time operating systems such as VxWorks