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The System Engineers Handbook : Guide to Building VME and VXI Systems.
The System Engineer's Handbook, written by the developer of the VME bus system and some of the most knowledgeable experts in the computer industry, is the most comprehensive guide available for the VME bus standard. It is the system engineer's guide to building high performance multiproces...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Elsevier Science,
1992.
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| Colección: | Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The System Engineer's Handbook: A Guide to Building VMEbus and VXIbus Systems; Dedication; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART 1: Debugging The Hardware; CHAPTER 1. How To Use Special-Purpose Tools To Debug Your VMEbus Systems; Debugging a backplane-based system; Board-level debugging; System integration; Incorporation of application software; Using conventional instruments; Multimeters; Oscilloscopes; Logic analyzers; Emulators; Using VMEbus-specific tools; A summary of VMEbus-specific tools; VMEbus systems; Power supervisors.
- Extender boardsFirmware debug monitors; Signal breakout boards; VMEbus monitors; Anomaly triggers; VMEbus analyzers; VMEbus stimulators; Summary; CHAPTER 2. How To Use A VMEbus Analyzer To Integrate Your System; Using a bus analyzer; Adding the disk drive; Looking in the right place; Analyzing a sequence of events; Putting it all together; Tuning your system; What to look for in a VMEbus analyzer; Trace buffer size; Trace buffer expandability; Maximum sampling speed; Trigger/trace qualifiers; VMEbus stimulation and mastership; Temperature and voltage monitoring; The N9210 analyzer.
- A case historySummary; CHAPTER 3. How To Use Anomaly Triggers To Detect Subtle Bus Timing Violations; Common VMEbus timing violations; Detecting control signal interlock violations; Detection of a Rule 2.35 violation; Detection of Rule 2.17 violation; Detection of strobe-duration violations; Detection of a Rule 3.7 violation; Detecting glitches and bus signal degradation; Violations of stability requirements for address and data signals; Detection of instability on data Lines D00-D07; The Ultraview VBAT; Conclusion.
- CHAPTER 4. How To Use Soft Architectures To Build Versatile Diagnostic ToolsDriving VMEbus signal lines; Using a VMEbus analyzer; Data Collection; Active versus passive bus analyzers; Computer versus human interface; Signature analysis; Hard versus soft hardware architecture; The 5010 analyzer; Using a soft architecture to analyze 2 buses; Summary; CHAPTER 5. How To Use The Right Tools To Integrate Your VMEbus System; The 3 phases of debugging; VMEbus timing analyzers; Metastability effects; VMEbus state analyzers; Filtering; Software debugging; How fast should a VMEbus analyzer be?
- Providing bus analysis for VSBThe bus anomaly trigger; Performance and statistical analysis; The software method; The hardware method; The VBT-321; A typical scenario; CHAPTER 6. How To Use C To Debug Your VMEbus Hardware; Using assembly language to create diagnostic programs; Features of an idealized debugging language; High Level Languages; HLL compilers; HLL interpreters; Using High Level Languages to create diagnostic programs; The C programming language; Expressing your algorithm in a processor-independent fashion; Making subroutine calls, and passing parameters to those subroutines.