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From: jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: host/transputer link speeds?
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.154223.20046@specialix.co.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 15:42:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.133704.21008@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <16425@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Organization: Specialix International, London
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In article <1991Jun4.133704.21008@cmcl2.nyu.edu> dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Isaac Dimitrovsky) writes:
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>Does anyone know what the fastest link you can get between a PC host
>and a transputer on a board is? I was under the impression that it
>was 300Kbytes/sec, which is too slow for us. If we could get up around
>two Mbytes/sec, transputers would look very interesting for our
>application (it involves real time video compression).
>

Links wont cut it (unless you use 2 or more and that gets very messy).
So don't use links !  Build a board with a transputer and some ram dual ported
into the host PC address space.  That said you will be pushed to get 2MB
a second out of a PC/AT bus however EISA or MCA will do it.

We get close to 2MB on our EISA boards using this approach however our
product is not a general purpose design that you could adapt.
-- 
John Pettitt, Specialix International, 
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Disclaimer: Me, say that ?  Never, it's a forged posting !