Intel i960 evaluation board

From: Kevin Schoedel <schoedel_at_kw.igs.net>
Date: Thu Apr 20 23:07:23 2000

On 2000/04/20 at 8:52pm -0500, you wrote:
> I just picked up three of the Intel EV80960SX evaluation boards. They're
>evaluation boards for the Intel 80960 processors. There's a picture of one
>at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/int80960.jpg". Does anyone have the
>specs or any docs for them?

A little. I've never seen this particular board, but have a short
description of it in a data book. It's not quite ten years old :-)

The i960 is a rather nice 32-bit RISC architecture; the 80960SA is at the
bottom end of the family, lacking floating point and MMU, and having a
16-bit external data bus.

The board you have has 1/2M to 4M DRAM, some EPROM, possibly two flash,
two serial ports, one parallel port (input only), Canon print engine
interface, & processor signals brought out (presumably to the large white
connector). The EPROMs most likely contain a monitor that works over one
of the serial ports. I can't remember whether you can do anything with
just a terminal or whether you need particular host software.

Since some i960s are still in production, you can most likely get
information and software from Intel.

-- 
Kevin Schoedel
schoedel_at_kw.igs.net
Received on Thu Apr 20 2000 - 23:07:23 BST

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