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From: timv@ccad.uiowa.edu (Timothy VanFosson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: High Speed Parallel interface for HP/Apollo DN10000
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Date: 12 Sep 90 20:42:15 GMT
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I am reposting this because of some problems I had with relaynews,
so I'm not sure the original got through.  Forgive me if I'm wrong.

We are looking for a high speed parallel (or higher speed serial) interface
for the Apollo DN10000 (VME) that will allow us to communicate with our
Alliant FX/8, (presumably, such an interface would have to work on
the Alliant as well).  Bandwidth is not critical(>200Kb/s is ok), but
latency must be minimized.  The application is a real-time, mechanical
systems dynamics simulation coupled with real-time, realistic animation
of same.  The dynamics would be run on the DN10000, with other host
functions carried out on the Alliant FX/8, which will communicate with a
high-end image generator.  Sub-millisecond latency is preferred, as we
must maintain ~15 millisecond intervals for data transfer to the image
generator.

Essentially, what would we be looking for is something like a DR11 or
HSD interface.

If anyone has experience with such and interface, or has seen one
advertised, I would appreciate a pointer.

Thanks,
--tv
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Timothy VanFosson                   E-mail   : timv@ccad.uiowa.edu
Senior Systems Analyst              US Mail  : CAD-Research
University of Iowa                             228 ERF
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