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1 total messages Started by TRANSPUTER Wed, 15 Nov 1989 16:47
Buffering links
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Author: TRANSPUTER
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 16:47
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Link buffering
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The idea behind the different link speeds on Transputers was that
20Mbits was for use unbuffered on the same board between Transputers.

10Mbit was for use if you needed to buffer it between boards and
systems.

5Mbit was for the long haul.

The reason the skew decreases steeper than the clock period is that
there is a fixed uncertainty due to the PLL stability that needs to
be subtracted from the sampling clock period. The sampling clock for
20Mbit links runs at 100MHz. Over the 11 bit period of a data packet,
it must still be sampling within the data bit. If the edge of the data
bit has moved due to skew the sampling clock may fall off the end,
causing erroneous data to be read.

Andy Rabagliati - INMOS US Central Applications
EMAIL: transputer@isnet.inmos.com
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