On 10/18/16 6:39 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Paul Birkel
> Maaaaaybe there are three ribbon cables back there
Sure looks like it, and running to a standard MASSBUS connector, to boot.
(Not that I have any use for the latter - absolutely no MASSBUS cables at
all. But one could just run flat cables from this, to one's RH11/RH70.)
I don't see a second MASSBUS connector, wonder what they do about
termination? Maybe it's onboard? So I guess one could only have one
of these things per MASSBUS port? Not really a problem, of course! ;-)
I can shed a bit of light here. There are two components involved. On
the emulation end, there is a PCI card with an FPGA that implements the
interface logic; and there is software on a PC that deals with device
logic and storage. Between the PC and the MASSBUS interface on the host
machine, there is a driver/receiver board that adapts signal levels
between MASSBUS and the FPGA.
We _definitely_ need to put these things in 'production'.
Agreed.
- Josh
Noel
