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Subject: Re: VME Bus Standard
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Date: 29 Nov 89 10:38:20 GMT
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IEEE Standard for a Versatile Backplane Bus: VMEbus
ANSI/IEEE Std 1014-1987
Published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
	345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017 USA
Distributed in cooperation with Wiley-Interscience, 
	a division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN 0-471-61601-X
Library of Congress Catalog Number 87-46413


I believe that Motorola distributes a version, possibly more recent than
what I finally sent off for, as part of their technical publications.

You'd probably want a VSBbus standard as well.


I know of no "easy" books on the VMEbus,
but the standard isn't so difficult to read.
Reading a few other bus standards at the same time
for comparison helps.
Also try to get some tech info for the VME bus controller chips
(Motorola's, Force's, or the recent VIC chip)
as well as typical boards - since, of all the VME features,
many systems do not stretch them to the limit,
so it's more a question of what is done rather than what is permitted.


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