[Info-vax] DEC rtvax300

[Roger Ivie]

On 2012-10-13, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> There are (were?) commercial PCI->VME adapters. 

The old Bit3 stuff is now owned by GE:
http://defense.ge-ip.com/products/family/busadapters

There are a few others out there, also:
http://www.pentek.com/products/Detail.cfm?Model=4229
http://www.systerra.de/A6pci1108.html

I've seen one company selling various bits that include PCIexpress
to a serial cable and that serial cable to VMEbus (so you could
gum together a PCIexpress to VMEbus adapter), but the name of the
company escapes me.

Recent VMEbus specs include high-speed serial connectors between
the VMEbus connectors. Some folks make SBCs that include a VMEbus
adapter for such cages. Invariably such setups seem to be
PCIexpress out of the CPU support chips to a parallel PCI adapter
to a Universe II VMEbus adapter. Typically, the only thing on
the parallel PCI bus is the VMEbus adapter.
-- 
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net