VICbus: VME inter-crate bus-a versatile cable bus

Author

Parkman, Christopher F.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

39

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

84

Abstract

VICbus is a multiplexed multimaster cable bus primarily intended for interconnecting backplane bus systems, such as VMEbus, but which may also be used wherever a high-performance, general-purpose cable bus is required. It is implemented using differential line transmission to interconnect up to 31 devices on a total cable length of 100 m. Both compelled (asynchronous) and noncompelled (synchronous) data transmission protocols are specified. An efficient bus arbitration mechanism takes into consideration the long signal propagation times on cables. A simple interrupt mechanism permits the transparent use of interrupts on interconnected VMEbus backplanes. The data transfer protocols, bus arbitration, interrupts, register, and implementation details are discussed

Keywords

computer interfaces; multiplexing equipment; physics computing; protocols; VICbus; VME inter-crate bus; asynchronous; bus arbitration mechanism; compelled; data transfer protocols; differential line transmission; implementation details; interconnecting backplane bus systems; interrupt mechanism; multiplexed multimaster cable bus; noncompelled; register; synchronous; transparent use; versatile cable bus; Backplanes; Cables; Computer networks; Data communication; Fault tolerant systems; High performance computing; ISO standards; Master-slave; Protocols; Redundancy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.277465

Filename

277465