edj@k.cs.cmu.edu (Doug Jensen) (03/18/87)
I am interested in learning about the origins of various backplane bus techniques -- i.e., either papers (unlikely) or implementations. For example: When did the synchronous multiplexed backplane bus arise? When did multimaster bus arbitration using fully-interlocked handshaking arise? If you have historical information on these, I'd appreciate hearing it. Doug Jensen Computer Science Dept. CMU Jensen@k.cs.cmu.edu 412-268-2 (c
atul@nynexst.com (Atul Chhabra) (04/05/91)
Could someone point me to recent survey articles or books on backplane buses.
I am interested in comparative evaluation and typical applications of buses.
I have heard of the recent trend of using the SCSI interface as a medium
of communication between several boards (instead of the traditional backplane
bus approach.) For instance, a manufacturer of image processing hardware
provides a SCSI interface to link his hardware to a Sun Sparc. This way, the
image processing hardware is treated like a peripheral. I would like to know
the pros and cons of this approach. Any pointers to such work are welcome.
Please respond by email. If there is sufficient interest, I will post a
summary on the net.
Thanks in advance.
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=========================================================================mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) (04/05/91)
A good book is _Digital_Bus_Handbook_ by Joseph Di Giacomo published by McGraw-Hill. It has chapters on all the major buses except EISA, SBus, and Mbus. (Can anyone explain why Sun capitalized the 'B' in SBus but not in Mbus?) Each bus chapter is written by an authority on the subject. The latter third of the book are chapters on basic principles, like transmission lines, crosstalk, connectors, etc. Again, the chapters are written by selected experts on each subject. I really like this book.