From brian.oneill@ntu.ac.uk Sun Oct 31 15:49:06 2004
From: "O'Neill, Brian" <brian.oneill@ntu.ac.uk>
To: 'Ruth Ivimey-Cook' <ruthc@sharra.demon.co.uk>
Cc: "'occam-com@ukc.ac.uk'" <occam-com@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 13:57:25 -0000
Subject: StrongArm transputer look-alike
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Ruth,
You may be interested in our current work on an interface between the
StrongArm and our ICR C416 routing device.  Our overall aim is to
produce a transputer type system.

The specification is for a two word (32bits) header on transmission and
a one word header on receive for each message passed between processors
irrespective of the number of routers in the path.  The interface will
use DMA transfers for the main body of the message transfer.  This will
take most of the task of communication away from the processor in a
similar manner to transputer communication.

Another feature of the specification is to boot the processor from the
link interface.  A node could be designed with a minimum of one
processor, one interface device (an ALTERA 10k FLEX) and one SDRAM
module.

If you would like further details of this specification I will be
pleased to supply it.

Regards,
Brian
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