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SSD4

Software and Drivers
Documentation
Specifications

Synchronous Serial Interface for SBus Computers

The SSD4 is a legacy product. Support for existing or newly-acquired boards can not be provided to anyone who did not have SSD4 implementations that existed prior to the end of 2004.

Features

  • Serial rates up to 15 Mbits/sec
  • 1, 2, or 4 channels per board
  • Independent clock per channel
  • Programmable 1, 2, or 4 data bits per clock
  • RS422 compatible driver/receivers
  • SunSPARCstation compatible
  • TTL compatible driver/receivers with special cables
  • Single SBus slot
  • Device drivers for Solaris 2.4 and later

Applications

  • Monitoring serial data communications
  • Telemetry receiver

Description

The SSD4 Synchronous Serial Interface is a SCD-20 modified to collect one to four channels of synchronous serial data. A synchronous serial interface channel is composed of one to four data bits accompanied by a clock. The data is sampled on the rising edge of the clock and stored in the host computer memory by the SCD-20 DMA. The SSD4 can be configured with one, two or four independent serial interface channels, and stores the channel number along with the data acquired from that channel.

Software

A device driver for Solaristm is included with the SSD4. The driver provides access to the SSD4 through standard and asynchronous read and write system calls. A DMA ring buffer management library is provided for high speed continuous transfers.

Cables

Use the SSD4 with one of two optional 10 foot cables. The CAB-SS provides a differential RS-422 interface. The CAB-TTL provides a single ended TTL interface. Each cable allows up to four channels: the number of active channels and data bits in each channel depends on the configuration of the SCD-20 board and associated software.

Options

  • Custom cables
  • Up to 100 Mbits/sec data rate available with LVDS or PECL I/O

Support

EDT provides several levels of customer support, from phone consultation to custom design of hardware and software, at hourly rates.

Specifications

    SBus Compliance

      Number of slots: 1
      Transfer size: 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16
      Words per transfer: As many as the host computer will accomodate
      DVMA Master
      SBus memory space: Approx. 66Kb

    Data Transfer

      Protocol: synchronous
      Transfer: 1, 2, or 4 separate

    Clock

      4 channel operation- clocks up to 2.2 MHz
      2 channel operation- clocks up to 5 MHz
      1 channel operation- clocks up to 15 MHz

    Signals

      RS422 with CAB-SS
      TTL with CAB-TTL
      Variable with SSD4-SE chassis

    Software

      Device drivers for Solaris 2.4 or later

    Power

      2 A @ 5 volts

    Environmental

      Temperature:

        Operating: 10° to 40° C
        Nonoperating: -20° to 60° C

      Humidity:

        Operating: 20% to 80% noncondensing @ 40° C
        Nonoperating: 95% noncondensing @ 40° C

    Physical

      Single standard SBus slot
      Dimensions: 3.9" x 5.05" x 0.5"
      Weight: 3.8 oz.

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