---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBus Developer List SunFLASH Vol 21 #17 September 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list of SBus related products is from Sun's SBus product manager. It is posted to SunFlash every couple of months (or so). - flash ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The current list of SBus developers has grown to 100 products or services from 52 vendors. 27 new additions have been made since the last time the list was published. Enclosed, please find the most recent update as of September 17, 1990. Highlights that have been added to the list since the last update of July 10. US additions since the last update: Aurora Technologies SBus Token Ring interface SBus Fax/Modem HP Scanjet interface 4 port SYNC serial expander 8 port SYNC serial expander 16 port serial expander SBus Expansion unit (more SBus ports) Brixton Systems Internetwork Protocol Router IKON DMA Centronics interface Versatec TTL interface Versatec Differential interface Texas Microsystems SBus Expansion Unit Solflower Computer SBus to VME Adaptor Captital Communications CD-I (CD-ROM) interface Dawn VME Products Single wide prototyping card Double wide prototyping card Triple wide prototyping card Design Solutions SBus PCB Consulting services Europe and ICON additions since the last update: Archepel (France) (Transputer parallel environment) Mitsui-Zosen Systems Giken Co., Ltd (Japan) 2 port serial, 1 port parallel Haft Technology (Japan) Prototyping Environment LINKS Co. (Japan) Frame Memory System Design Service Co. (Japan) SBus to Qbus DMA interface board IEEE-488 interface F.M.C. Co. (Japan) Centronics interface A to D, D to A converter IEEE-488 interface 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 have product requirements different from what you see below, please forward those requirements to Jeff Siegel with as much information as possible (customer contact, specific requirements, etc.). 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. Jeff Siegel Hardware Peripherals Market Segment Manager sieg@sun.com 415-336-4276 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Party SBus Developments as of September 17, 1990. Products are listed by the following application areas: I. Parallel/Serial/IO II. Bus Adapters III. Graphics/Display/Video IV. IEEE 488 Interfaces (GPIB) V. Coprocessors VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces VII. LAN/WAN/Networking VIII. Disk Controllers IX. Modems/Facsimile X. Industrial I/O (A-D,D-A, digital I/O) XI. Memory XII. Developer Enabling Products (prototype boards, test boards, interface chips) XIII. MiL-STD Interface XIV. DSP Systems XV. Audio, Voice, and Speech Systems XVI. DR-11W Interface XVII. Consulting Services 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 ----------- ------------------ ---------------- Agile Systems 2100SP, 2 serial, 1 parallel $395 September 90 Bob May (608)274-6880 4000SS, 4 serial ports $395 September 90 Fax:(608)274-6867 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antares Microsystems Parallel Port $295 now Alex Chan 415-965-4326 8 channel serial controller $945 September 90 Fax:(415)964-2027 Cable management box option $150 now Email antares@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurora Technologies 210S 2 Serial, 1 parallel $595 now Dennis Daudelin 617-577-1288 Fax:(617)621-0265 400S 4 serial ports $795 now Email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET bskidmor 800S 8 serial ports $1495 now 1600S 16 serial ports $1995 now 400S+ 4 serial SYNC ports $995 October 90 800S+ 8 serial SYNC ports $1695 October 90 10S 1 Parallel port $395 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Baydel Ltd. SMLB8 8 serial ports $1350 now (pounds) Tony Bedingfield 1 parallel port (Surrey England) Tel: 011 44 372 378811 SMLB16 16 serial ports $1665 now (pounds) FAX: 011 44 372 386960 1 parallel port SMPB24 24 serial ports $2645 now (pounds) 2 parallel ports SMPB32 32 serial ports $3395 now (pounds) 2 parallel ports ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Berkeley Camera Eng. SBusDSP-56X, 13 MIPS DSP56001 $1995 September 90 Mike Peck 2 serial to 6.7 Mbaud, DMA (415)886-4609 Soft load gate-array, 29 bits Fax:(415)643-7629 Parallel I/O, Custom interfaces Email:mikep@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CoSYSTEMS CoALM-S4 4 Serial ports $295 now Peter Behan with full modem (408)734-2208 Added expansion with CoALM-S4E Fax:(408)734-2493 CoALM-S8 8 serial ports $995 now with full modem Email:amd@cosys@support CoALM-S8P 8 serial ports with $1095 September 90 full modem, 1 Centronics port CoPIO-S 1 Bidirectional $495 September 90 Centronics port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danford Corp SPPE-6500, 4 serial ports $1595 now Jay Healey and 1 Parallel port 213-514-9334 SEU-6900, 8 serial ports $1695 September 90 Fax 213-831-0454 HPPP-6100 1 Parallel port September 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- F.M.C. Co. 16010-CNS Available now Mr. Mizusawa Centronics 8 bit parallel Contact vendor for 81-426-75-5402 interface pricing outside Japan Fax:81-426-75-5462 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios Systems High performance 8 port serial, October 90 (408)432-0292 1 port parallel Fax:(408)943-1309 Gordon Meyer e-mail helios-mktg@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKON DMA Centronics interface January 91 Bill Waddington 206-728-6465 Fax:206-728-1633 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNP Computers DE-1 8 port serial, 1 port parallel $1500 now Ken Kalb in external chassis 75-38.4 Kbaud per port (818)577-4252 Fax:(818)577-4263 8+1 card 8 additional serial $500 now ports, 1 parallel port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mars Microsystems 8 serial ports $875 now 412-934-1040 1 parallel port Brian Rosen Fax:(412)934-1060 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitsui-Zosen System Giken Co., Ltd. (7531CentroSBus) Mr. Goka 2 RS-232C ports Available now 81-3-544-3455 1 Centronics port Contact vendor for Fax:81-3-544-3816 price outside of Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SCC-SBM8, 8 Port Async Serial $945 now Dick Bravo card (40-50 Kbytes/sec total 714-632-0474 aggregate throughput) Fax:(714)630-5417 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solarix Systems APP1 High performance $395 now (formally Able Tech.) Centronics interface (415)659-1544 Fax:(415)226-0781 Pam Slone ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems SSC-80, 8 port serial mux $995 now 713-933-8050 Fax:(713)933-1029 SPC-60, Parallel Port $395 now Mike Bosworth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Bus Adapters ----------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX SBus-SBus Expansion October 90 (818)-300-8828 Up to 6 slots and Fax:(818)282-9992 SCSI expansion Johnathan Kong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurora Technologies SBus expansion unit November 90 Dennis Daudelin Up to 2 addtional 4 port 617-577-1288 SBus expanders can be attached Fax:617-621-0265 to the host. Slave only devices are supported email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit 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 Fax:(612)881-9674 Model 465 SBus-Qbus adaptor $2695 now SBus card plus quad Qbus card ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance SBus-VME adapter October 90 Technologies Single slot SBus card Contact vendor 716-586-6727 80 pin shielded cable for pricing Fax:(716)586-6707 connected to 6u VME card Don Turrell ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solflower Computer Inc. SFVME-100 $2500 Now Kim Vu SBus to VME Bus Link $3500 Now with enclosure 408-456-5055 Burst transfers up to Fax:408-456-0625 20MB/sec. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Design Service Co. S-DMAC (SDS-9004) Available now Mr. Nakagawa SBus to Qbus DMA Contact vendor for 81-3-590-0570 Interface pricing outside Japan Fax:81-3-590-0571 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems 9100 SBus Expansion system $1595 November 90 Tim Taylor Single slot SBus card 800-626-8700 expands to 4 additional SBus or 713-933-8050 slots. Disk expansion also Fax:713-933-1029 possible ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Graphics/Display ---------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX Color or Mono Graphics Frame Buffer October 90 (818)-300-8828 1280 X 1024; 8 bit color + 2 Fax:(818)282-9992 1152 X 900; 8 bit color + 2 Johnathan Kong 1024 X 768; 8 bit color + 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINKS Co. PFB-2 Available now Mr. Ueda Frame Memory Contact vendor for 81-3-450-8163 pricing outside Japan Fax:81-3-471-2607 Megatek Sigma 30 3D graphics $9000 September 90 Tel: (619)455-5590 accelerator, 300k 2D vectors/ including software Fax: (619)453-7603 sec., 200k 3D vectors/sec. Bill Hodge 20k shaded ploygons/sec. E-Mail: uunet!megatek!hodge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RasterOps 24 bit Color Frame $4995; now 408-562-4200 buffer; video-in option Fax:(408)562-4065 also available Patrick Sweeney 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 ----------- ------------------- ----------------- F.M.C. Co. 13010-GPS November 90 Mr. Mizusawa IEEE-488 interface Contact vendor for 81-426-75-5402 pricing outside Japan Fax:81-426-75-5462 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IOtech SB488 SBus-IEEE488 $995 now Dan Lucarini controller 216-439-4091 Fax:(216)439-4093 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Instruments GPIB (IEEE-488) $995 now (512) 794-0100 interface Fax:(512)794-5569 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Systems Design Service Co. S-GPIB (SDS-9015) Available Now Mr. Nakagawa IEEE-488 interface Contact vendor for 81-3-590-0570 pricing outside Japan Fax:81-3-590-0571 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Coprocessors ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Archipel VOLVOX-1/S ~$4000 Now Jean-Marie FEST Parallel transputer environment Contact vendor for 33-50-69-20-58 1-4MB RAM, also has ability to exact pricing Fax:33-50-69-20-65 expand to larger arrary with outside of France connection to seperate chasis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSP Inc. Supercard i860 vector processor January 91 Geoff Cohler with 80 MFLOPS performance (617)272-6020 and 16 MB RAM Fax:(508)663-0150 Email:{apollo,ascway,decvax}!cspi!geof ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 now 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/i960 co-processor October '90 (508) 250-1920 Fax:(508)250-0036 Cimarron Boozer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces ------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Aurora Technologies HP Scanjet interface January 91 Dennis Daudelin Works with Aurora's parallel 617-577-1288 expanders. OpenWindows Fax:617-621-0265 toolkit included email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKON TTL Versatec interface January 91 Bill Waddington 206-728-1633 Differential Veratec January 91 Fax:206-728-1633 interface --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microststems Differential Versatec interface $795 now Mike Bosworth (800)627-8700 Fax:(713)933-1029 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Versatec Interface to Versatec 8510 September 90 (408)988-2800 CADmate plotter Fax:(408)970-0287 Lily Lee Louie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. LAN/WAN/Networking ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd Ethernet Controller $395 September 90 Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurora Technologies SBus Token Ring interface December 90 Dennis Daudelin 4/16Mbs, peer to peer and 617-577-1288 server environments supported Fax:617-621-0265 Inital support for TCP/IP. email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brixton Systems 3270, LU0, SNA IP gateway, October 90 Herbert Rush 37xx termainal and printer (617)497-2938 support, SunNet Mgr. support FAX:(617)876-2523 Point to point Internetwork October 90 Router for wide area interconnection. Supports up to 8 lines at 64Kbps each ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios- W. Germany AppleTalk interface $1700 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 now Presentation Tech.(IPT) IPT-230/A Olivia Fauela (818)347-7791 Fax:(818)992-5580 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Themis Computer TCSBUS X.25 X.25 Contoller September 90 (415)734-0870 T1/CEPT Data rates, on board Fax:(415)734-0873 processor, SUNOS compatable Contact vendor Bill Kehret for pricing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Disk Controllers ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd SCSI Controller $495 now Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. Modems/Facsimile --------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems Fax Modem December 90 Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurura Technologies SBus Fax/Modem card November 90 Dennis Daudelin 9600 baud fax, 2400 baud modem 617-577-1288 Fax:617-621-0265 email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios Systems X-tend Netmodem/Fax board November 90 (408)432-0292 H/W and S/W solution for Fax:(408)943-1309 voice, data and fax Gordon Meyer e-mail helios-mktg@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- JTS Computer Systems Data Compression/Decompression October 90 Joe Strul using CCITT group 3 & Group 4 (416)665-8910 Fax:(416)665-8258 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xecom NewPort SB Fax/Data (9.6 Kbaud September 90 408-945-6640 Fax, 2.4 Kbaud data modem) Contact vendor Fax:(408)942-1346 for pricing Allen Gregory NewPort SB 2400MNP5 2400 baud October 90 data modem NewPort SB 9600 Fax Group 3 October 90 send/recieve Fax modem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Industrial I/O ------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ F.M.C. Co. 13010-ADS November 90 Mr. Mizusawa A to D, D to A Contact vendor for 81-426-75-5402 Converter pricing outside Japan Fax:81-426-75-5462 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haft Technology High speed digital I/O DIO $650 81-298-56-5588 Software driver $320 FAX:81-298-56-5587 October 90 Mr. Imura (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems A to D converter September 90 (800)627-8700 Fax:(713)933-1029 SDC-90 Digital I/O Card $495 September 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Memory ----------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Memory Systems 2 GB shared access RAM memory October 90 (713)771-8200 Fax:(713)771-8187 Dan Blair ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XII. Enabling Products, Services --------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Dawn VME DPS-1, Prototype Board with $995 now Fred Hirsch LSI DMA Controller 415-657-4444 Fax:(415)657-3274 Single, Double, and Triple Contact vendor for Wide prototyping boards are pricing also available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haft Technology Universal Board Available Now Mr. Imura Double Wide Prototyping Contact vendor for 81-298-56-5588 Board pricing outside Japan Fax:81-298-56-5587 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSI Logic L64853 SBus DMA Controller $49; 10 days ARO 408-433-7256 Sue Carlson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SSB-SB96, Buffered extender $495 now Dick Bravo card; typically used for 714-632-0474 product development, testing, Fax:(714)632-5417 factory repair of SBus cards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIII. MiL-STD Interface ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Engineering Design SBus 1553 Interface Board $7900 now Team (Military interface std) (503) 690-1234 David Lowry Fax:(503)690-1243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIV. DSP Systems ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Ariel S-56 DSP Co-Processor $1495 September 90 Les Listwa (Motorola 56001) (201)249-2900 Fax:(201)249-2123 S-56X DSP 56001 with custom $1995 September 90 serial & parallel I/O (NeXT compatable DSP Port) Email ama@master.ariel.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XV. Audio, Voice, and Speech Systems ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Capital Video Communications Inc. CD-I $6500 Now John Hight System for Compact Disc 202-965-7800 Interactive (CD-I) production Fax:202-625-0210 Connection is to a Philips email:hight@capital.Com CD-I player, and software is included or sun!sundc!capital!hight ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command Corp. Voice Recognition System January 91 Bob Adams (404)925-7950 Fax:(404)925-7924 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XVI. DR-11W Interface --------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Engineering Design DR-11W Interface $1500 now Team Dave Lowry (503)690-1234 Fax:(503)690-1243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKON DR-11W Interface December 90 Bill Waddington (206)728-6465 Fax:(206)728-1633 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XVII. Consulting Services -------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- Design Solutions, Inc. PCB design service now custom quote Sean O'Neil 805-964-7525 Fax:805-967-5716 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graceline Design Inc. PCB design service; high now custom quote Marsha Gilliland density SMD specialists (408)746-0707 Fax:(408)746-2704 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highgate Design Xilinx digital design now custom quote Rocky Awalt (LCA) specialists (408)255-7160 Fax:(408)255-7162 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesa Ridge SBus HW, SW, Firmware Available now; Technologies engineering custom quote Ed Romascan 619-457-0769 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAC Technology GmbH SBus Hardware/software now custom quote Andreas Jankowsky consulting/engineering Tel. 011 49 30 213-9200 FAX 011 49 30 213-9155 e-mail uucp: mcvax!unido!tub!janky@pac.uucp (Germany) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It is targeted at Sun Users and Customers. 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