Re: VME Bus Error handling on MVME3100 and 6100 boards

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Kate Feng wrote:
> I was told
> that on the mvme6100, "MBLT performance is similar to
> what the universe's".  However, I do not really have any
> experience on the mvme6100 yet.  Thus, the above statement
> could be wrong.  I would appreciate if any experienced
> expert on the mvme6100 can verify this statement.

I'm not speaking from any experience here, but I see no reason to doubt 
the accuracy of that statement - the performance of almost all VME I/O 
operations is going to be limited by the requirements of the VMEbus 
specification nowadays, not by the design of the interface chips, which 
are so much faster than in the early days of the VMEbus.  Both the 
Universe and Tempe chips were designed by Tundra, so I doubt there's any 
chance the Tempe would be slower.

- Andrew
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