Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!tut!jarmo
From: jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: parallel communication for transputers?
Message-ID: <162@karhu.tut.FI>
Date: 22 Dec 88 11:15:34 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Hello!

We are building an experimental real-time robot control system.  It is
based on transputers.

The clumsy part of our present setup is that all I/O goes through the
IBM PC/AT (we have a Definicon board in the AT bus).  If it were
possible to do I/O directly from the transputer board to the robot,
things would be more sound.  However, the robot (PUMA) requires
a parallel communication interface (two unidirectional 16-bit wide
ports, plus some handshake lines).

The question:

Is there a product that would convert transputer links to parallel
ports, and which could be plugged into the AT bus?  There would have
to be more than one port.

I have seen an ad (which I have lost) about a programmable interval
timer & I/O ports.  Was it Definicon?  Could anyone provide more
information on this?

Thank you in advance!

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