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Seeking Intel i960RP opinions/experiences
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- Subject: Seeking Intel i960RP opinions/experiences
- From: Adam Barnes <amb@transtech.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:22:09 +0100
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Hi all,
We're currently considering an upgrade to a multi-PowerPC board we make to provide twin PCI busses for improved allocation of I/O bandwidth. We could just slap a DEC PCI-to-PCI bridge chip on it, but the i960RP looks like an apparently sensible alternative to what would otherwise be an i960 + PCI9060 + DEC bridge.
However, I noticed some banter a while ago on the reflector about heat and power consumption issues. Should we be concerned about these? What's the state of current parts vis-à-vis errata etc.? And a specific question: can you disable the secondary bus arbiter (so you can do the arbitration yourself)?
Any feedback would be gratefully received.
Adam Barnes
Transtech Parallel Systems
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