---------------------------------------------------------------------------- New SBus Developer List SunFLASH Vol 18 #15 June 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[ This is from an article posted to the SunSpots mailing list by Jeff Siegel. This SBus list was current on May 7th, 1990. - johnj ]] Many new products have been added to the SBus Developer list in recent months. Currently there are over 65 products from more than 35 vendors on the developer list. Almost 20 product are currently shipping. The listing below has 19 new products coming from 10 new vendors, with some of the products from prior listing deleated because of products slipping. Here is a highlight of the products added since the last update: Vendor Product ------ ------- Able Technilogies Centronics port Agile Systems Serial/Parallel expansion Berkeley Camera Eng. Parallel/serial controller CoSYSTEMS Serial/Parallel expansion RasterOps Live full motion video in a window CSP Inc. i860 co-processor Texas Microsystems Versatec interface IPT Appletalk interface JTS Computer Ststems Compression/decompression board Ariel DSP products Command Corp. Voice recognition system A list of known SBus products available (or soon to be) from third party vendors is attached. This listing does not represent all SBus projects under development. It includes only those vendors who have authorized Sun to make their projects known. If you are aware of existing SBus products that you do not see described below, please forward any information you have so that I can maintain an accurate listing. If you have independent hardware vendors who are interested in developing SBus products contact Jeff Siegel. If you have questions or want more information, contact: Jeff Siegel Hardware Peripherals Market Segment Manager sieg@pistons 415-336-4276 Third Party SBus Add-on options: Products are listed by the following application areas: I. Parallel/Serial/IO II. Bus Adapters III. Graphics/Display IV. IEEE 488 Interfaces (GPIB) V. Coprocessors VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces VII. LAN/WAN/Networking VIII. Disk Con805itrollers IX. Modems/Facsimile X. Industrial I/O (A-D, digital I/O) XI. Memory XII. Developer Enabling Products (prototype boards, test boards, interface chips) XIII. MiL-STD Interface XIV. DSP Systems XV. Voice/Speech XVI. DR-11W Interface Sun Microsystems makes no recommendation as to the suitability of a product from a particular vendor for a given application. Sun Microsystems has not qualified or reviewed any claims made about product features or functions, and is not responsible for their accuracy. No vendor is authorized to act as an agent of Sun Microsystems or to commit Sun in any way concerning Sun's products and their functionality, availability, or price. I. Parallel/Serial/IO ---------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ---------------- Able Technologies Intelligent Centronics port $495 May 90 Lucky Leake (415)659-1544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agile Systems 2100SP, 2 serial, 1 parallel $395 July 90 Bob May (608)274-6880 4000SS, 4 serial ports $395 July 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antares Microsystems Parallel Port $295 May 90 Alex Chan 415-965-4326 8 channel serial controller $795 May 90 Cable management box option $150 May 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurora Technologies 210S 2 Serial, 1 parallel $595 now Dennis Daudelin (bidirectional) 617-577-1288 4 serial ports May 90 8 serial ports May 90 10S 1 Parallel port $395 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Baydel Ltd. S-MUX-16: 16 serial port May 90 Tony Bedingfield multiplexor box Surrey England Tel: 0372 378811 S-MUX-32: 32 serial port May 90 FAX: 0372 386960 multiplexor box -T Option: fitted with SCSI 150 Mbyte 1/4 inch cartridge tape -W Option fitted with 337 Mbyte Winchester ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Berkeley Camera Eng. SBusDSP-56X 27 Bits Parallel August 90 Mike Peck 2 serial controller (415)886-4609 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CoSYSTEMS CoALM-S4 4 Serial ports June 90 Peter Behan with full modem (408)734-2208 Added expansion with CoALM-S4E CoALM-S8 8 serial ports June 90 with full modem CoALM-S8P 8 serial ports with June 90 full modem, 1 Centronics port CoPIO-S 1 Bidirectional June 90 Centronics port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danford Corp SPPE-6500, 4 serial ports $1595 now Jay Healey and 1 Parallel port 213-514-9334 SEU-6800, 8 serial ports June 90 2 Parallel ports August 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNP Computers DE-1 8 port serial, 1 port parallel $1500 May 90 Ken Kalb in external chassis 75-38.4 Kbaud per port (818)577-4252 8+1 card 8 additional serial $500 May 90 ports, 1 parallel port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mars Microsystems 8 serial ports May 90 412-934-1040 Contact vendor Brian Rosen for pricing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SCC-SBM8, 8 Port Async Serial $945 May 90 Dick Bravo card (40-50 Kbytes/sec total 714-632-0474 aggregate throughput) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems SSC-80, 8 port serial mux $995 now 713-933-8050 Mike Bosworth SPC-60, Parallel Port $495 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Bus Adapters ----------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX SBus-SBus Expansion August 90 (818)-300-8828 Up to 6 slots and Johnathan Kong SCSI expansion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bil 3 Computer Model 466 SBus-A32/B32 VME adapter $1995 now SBus card + 6U VME card Merle Lonnon Model 464 SBus-Multibus adaptor $1580 now SBus card + Multibus card (612)881-6955 Model 465 SBus-Qbus adaptor $2695 May 90 SBus card plus quad Qbus card ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance SBus-VME adapter June 90 Technologies Single slot SBus card Contact vendor 716-586-6727 80 pin shielded cable for pricing Don Turrell connected to 6u VME card ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Graphics/Display ---------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX Color or Mono Graphics Frame Buffer July 90 (818)-300-8828 1280 X 1024; 8 bit color + 2 Johnathan Kong 1152 X 900; 8 bit color + 2 1024 X 768; 8 bit color + 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RasterOps 24 bit Color Frame $4995; now 408-562-4200 buffer; video-in option Andy Goodrich also available TC-PIP Live full motion video $6995 May 90 in a window (includes 24 bit frame buffer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. IEEE 488 Interfaces ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------- ----------------- IOtech SB488 SBus-IEEE488 $995 now Dan Lucarini controller 216-439-4091 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Instruments GPIB (IEEE-488) June 90 (512) 794-0100 interface Tim Dehne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Coprocessors ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ CSP Inc. Supercard i860 vector processor Contact Vendor Geoff Cohler with 80 MFLOPS performance (617)272-6020 and 16 MB RAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meiko Scientific SBus Computing Surface $5950; now North America: interface for connectivity Brad Bradley to Intel i860, Inmos T800, 617-890-7676 graphic output, and image UK and Europe: and signal processing systems David Barr using parallel processing 44(0)454 616171 and I/O ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puzzle Systems SYNERGY: 386 DOS coprocessor $1995, May '90 Jim Leslie single width SBus, VGA 408-779-9909 support; MS Windows 3.0 FAX 408-778-1346 support; performance at ~16Mhz 386sx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sky Computer SBus i860 co-processor Contact vendor (508) 250-1920 Cimarron Boozer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces ------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems Laser Printer Interface Contact vendor (415)965-4326 Alex Chan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microtek Labs SBus scanner interface Contact vendor (213)321-2121 Rosemary Albin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microststems Differential Versatec interface $795 June 90 Mike Bosworth (800)627-8700 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. LAN/WAN/Networking ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd Ethernet Controller $395 May 90 Alex Chan 415-965-4326 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios- W. Germany AppleTalk interface now Jens-Uwe Mager Phone: +49 511 3681093 FAX: +49 511 3681095 uucp: jum@helios.de or unido!heliosd!jum ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Appletalk interface card $595 July 90 Presentation Tech.(IPT) IPT-230/A Olivia Fauela (818)347-7791 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legato Systems Inc. Network accelerator Contact vendor (415) 329-7880 (accelerates NFS writes) Dennis Leibl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Disk Controllers ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd SCSI Controller $495 now Alex Chan 415-965-4326 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. Modems/Facsimile --------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems Fax Modem Contact vendor Alex Chan 415-965-4326 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- JTS Computer Systems Data Compression/Decompression August 90 Joe Strul using CCITT group 3 & Group 4 (416)665-8910 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xecom Fax/Data Modem (9.6 Kbaud July 90 408-945-6640 Fax, 2.4 Kbaud data) Contact vendor Allen Gregory for price ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Industrial I/O ------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Open Peripherals Analog/Digital I/O card Contact Vendor 305-493-8787 Gary Paxinos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems A to D converter July 90 (800)627-8700 Mike Bosworth SDC-90 Digital I/O Card $495 July 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Memory ----------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Memory Systems 2 GB shared access RAM memory June 90 (713)771-8200 Dan Blair ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XII. Enabling Products, Services --------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Dawn VME DPS-1, Prototype Board with May 90 Fred Hirsch LSI DMA Controller Contact vendor 415-657-4444 for price ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSI Logic L64853 SBus DMA Controller $49; 10 days ARO 408-433-7256 Sue Carlson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesa Ridge SBus HW, SW, Firmware Available now; Technologies engineering custom quote Ed Romascan 619-457-0769 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SSB-SB96, Buffered extender $495 now Dick Bravo card; typically used for 714-632-0474 product development, testing, factory repair of SBus cards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIII. MiL-STD Interface ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Engineering Design SBus 1553 Interface Board July 90 Team (Military interface std) (503) 690-1234 David Lowry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIV. DSP Systems ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Ariel S-56 DSP Co-Processor July 90 Les Listwa (Motorola 56001) (201)249-2900 S-56X DSP 56001 with custom August 90 serial & parallel I/O (NeXT compatable DSP Port) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XV. Voice/Speech Systems ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Command Corp. 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