Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: yli@transtech.com Fri Oct 28 12:10:48 1994
Subject: T9000
Organization: Transtech Parallel Systems
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 18:59:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Oct28.185946.12214@Princeton.EDU>





		     Revolutionary T9000 Products Announced at NATUG!
                                   
October 26, 1994.  Athens Georgia.  Transtech Parallel Systems launched a
comprehensive line of Inmos T9000 based parallel processing systems at the North
American Transputer Users Group (NATUG) Conference in Athens Georgia this week.
     
                               T9000 Architecture
                                   
The T9000 integrates a 32 bit superscalar integer processor, a 64 bit IEEE 
floating point unit, a virtual channel processor, 16KBytes of cache memory, 
and 4 high bandwith serial communication links, known as DS-Links.  Each of 
these DS-Links is capable of point-to-point communications at up to 10MBytes/sec.
     
                                 HTRAM Solutions
                                   
Transtech has designed a range of systems level products based around the T9000
HTRAM specification as defined by Inmos/SGS-Thomson.  This standard places 
a T9000 onto a  credit card sized module, with the DS-Links and user defineable 
pins accessible at the card edge.  These modules in turn connect to host 
interface cards and motherboards.  
     
                            Real-World Communication
                                   
For real-world communication, Transtech has mapped PCMCIA and IndustryPack
interfaces to the T9000's memory via a compatible extension to the HTRAM 
specification, called TL-Bus. The TL-Bus allows the T9000 on the HTRAM access
to memory-mapped devices on the  carrier card.  TL-Bus equipped HTRAM carrier 
cards are available for either VME or ISA busses with IndustryPack or PCMCIA 
sockets enabling integration of a wide range of off-the-shelf application 
specific interfaces.
     
All of these products are engineered to be 100% compatible with and complement
Inmos/SGS-Thomson's own line of T9000 based HTRAM solutions.
     
Since 1986, Transtech has been the leading producer of parallel computing 
systems based around transputer and T9000 technology.  In addition to the 
new T9000 products,  industry firsts have included 4 of generations of hybrid 
designs utilizing the T805 transputer and the Intel i860, SCSI II/transputer 
link interfaces, and turnkey supercomputers exploiting transputer technology.
     
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