user manual
Introduction
MVME162IG/D2 1-5
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Requirements
These boards are designed to conform to the requirements of the following
documents:
❏ VMEbus Specification (IEEE 1014-87)
❏ EIA-232-D Serial Interface Specification, EIA
❏ SCSI Specification, ANSI
❏ IndustryPack Specification, GreenSpring
Features
❏ 25MHz 32-bit MC68040 or MC68LC040 Microprocessor
❏ 1 MB, 4 MB, or 8 MB of shared DRAM with parity protection
❏ 512 KB of SRAM with battery backup
❏ One JEDEC standard 32-pin PLCC EPROM socket (EPROMs may be
shipped separately from the MVME162)
❏ One Intel 28F008SA 1M x 8 Flash memory device or four Intel 28F020 256K
x 8 Flash memory devices (1 MB Flash memory total)
❏ 8K by 8 Non-Volatile RAM and time of day clock with battery backup
❏ Four 32-bit Tick Timers (in the MCchip ASIC) for periodic interrupts
❏ Two 32-bit Tick Timers (in the VMEchip2 ASIC) for periodic interrupts
❏ Watchdog timer
❏ Eight software interrupts (for MVME162 versions that have the
VMEchip2)
❏ I/O
– Two serial ports (one EIA-232-D DCE; one EIA-232-D or EIA-530
DCE/DTE)
– Serial port controller (Zilog Z85230)
– Optional Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) bus interface with
32-bit local bus burst Direct Memory Access (DMA) (NCR 53C710
controller)
– Optional LAN Ethernet transceiver interface with 32-bit local bus
DMA (Intel 82596CA controller)
– Four MVIP IndustryPack interfaces
❏ VMEbus interface
– VMEbus system controller functions