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The Trimosbus

Sutherland, Ivan E. and Molnar, Charles E. and Sproull, Robert F. and Mudge, J. Craig (1979) The Trimosbus. In: Proceedings of the Caltech Conference On Very Large Scale Integration. California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA. (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCONF:20120504-160956776

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Abstract

This paper describes a family of communication buses that permit individual senders to communicate with an arbitrary number of receivers and to wait for the last receiver to respond. TRI in the name signifies the use of three wires for sequencing. The bus is speed-independent in that no assumptions about the relative or absolute speed with which bus participants respond to bus signals are required to ensure proper sequencing of bus operations. Data are passed by two separate mechanisms. First, during normal bus operation a number of parallel data wires are used to transmit individual characters or numbers. The MOS part of the name refers to the fact that the high input impedance of MOS circuits permits us to use these data wires themselves as storage nodes. Second, for debugging, testing, and error recovery a slower serial data path is provided. This paper also describes a TRIMOSBUS message protocol. The protocol uses sequences of bus cycles to transmit messages of arbitrary length. The unique sender can be selected either on a message by message basis by arbitration, or within a message by mutual consent. We plan to use the TRIMOSBUS and this message protocol in a variety of system designs at Caltech, Carnegie-Mellon University and Washington University.


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Additional Information:The research leading to this paper was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract no. N00039-77-C-0185; in part by the NIH Division of Research Resources, grant no. RR00396; and in part by Digital Equipment Corporation.
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