Status of FASTBUS Software

Much of the software effort over the last year has been concentrated on addressing. The concern has not so much been on how the address is divided up between segments and modules, but on making certain that enough control space and enough types of control space are available. This allows standard bit assignments for functions such as test, and also provides protection for such things as a computer´s program memory. Our goal is to provide a standard set of control space register assignments of the most frequently used functions so that one need only generate a software driver for the FASTBUS - not a software driver for each module on the bus. Finally, much effort the addressing symmetric. to control space and a almost identical software. has gone into making For example, broadcast normal write can use In order to achieve this goal we are developing a standard set of register assignments for commonly used function. A tentative set is listed in a table along with a brief description of each operation.