---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SBus: COPROCESSORS, I/O, INTERFACES, NETWORKING, COMMS, STORAGE, CONTROLLERS SunFLASH Vol 37 #6 January 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. COPROCESSORS VI. I/O DEVICES and INTERFACES VII. NETWORKING/COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACES VIII. STORAGE and DISK CONTROLLERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. COPROCESSORS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBUS SUPPLIER PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PRICE AVAILABILITY ----------------- ----------------------------- --------------------- ARCHIPEL Volvox-1/S $3,000 now Jean-Marie Fest Parallel transputer enviro Contact vendor for Tel: 33-50-69-20-58 1-4MB RAM, also has ability pricing outside France Fax: 33-50-69-20-65 expand to larger arrary with (France) connection to seperate chasis Volvox-IW860: parallel i860 $40,000-80,000 now extender for SPARCstations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BERKELEY CAMERA ENG. SBus DSP-56X REAL-TIME Coprocessor processes up to Michael Peck 2 million real-time events per second with up to Tel: 415-613-5113 80 MOPs, Motorola DSP56001 27,32 or 40MHz, 96 kBytes Fax: 415-733-0561 SRAM. Serioal/Parallel I/O on DB37 with power out, 29 bits programmable I/O with Xilinx 3042, Serial to 10Mbits, Async to 500 kbaud, Telemetry Frame Sync, data capture to >4MBits, NeXT DSP Port compatible - sound and video modules Digital Audio, Analog, Sound I/O modules, Sound Edit Tool, Gabriel (UC Berkeley) code Gen. Device driver source, C user interface lib, Apps. S56X DSP56001 @ 27MHz $1995 now S56X-32 DSP56001 @ 32MHz $2300 now S56X-40 DSP56001 @ 32MHz $2600 now SDK56 Software Developers Kit $1000 now Gabriel UC Berkeley graphical DSP code generator$ 500 now Pro Port Stereo 16bit, <= 100KHz/channel $1295 now DM-N Digital Mike, Stereo 16bit, <= 88.2KHz $ 595 now DAT I/O Digital Audio,AES/EBU,SPDIF transceiver $ 995 now AET Digital Audio,AES/EBU,SPDIF transceiver $ 550 Feb 92 AESDAC Stereo Digital Audio to Analog Converter$ 750 Feb 92 SCSI-DSP Peckbus Controller w/ Serial & SCSI $2500 Feb 92 DDX-32 Peckbus Dual DSP56001@32MHz,128 MOPs peak $2500 2/92 DDX-40 Peckbus Dual DSP56001@40MHz,160 MOPs peak $2900 2/92 PB-A S56X,SDK56,SCSI-DSP,2 DDX-40,320MOPs peak $9900 2/92 PB-B20 S56X-40, SDK56, SCSI-DSP, 20 DDX-40 3.2 GOPs $49,000 2/92 Email: mikep@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HSP HSP-SBus 1: SBus bridge to $1,500 now Georges Masarik transputers, SBus single slot, Basic configuration 33-1-30-573113 four transputer links (20Mbits), Fax33-1-30-435117 sustained throughput of 40 Mbits/s, (France) PARSYTEC/INMOS compatible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKOS SBus-IKOS interface $2,000 now Dave Allenbough Logic Simulation Tel: 408-245-1900 Accelerator Fax: 408-245-6219 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEIKO SCIENTIFIC SBus interface to scalable Available now North America: parallel processing system. Starting at $20,000 Brad Bradley Incorporates Sun host with (includes parallel Tel: 617-890-7676 i860s, T800s, high peformanc system) UK and Europe: graphics and I/O for simulation, Andrew Spencer signal and images analysis. Tel: 44-0-454-616171 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUZZLE SYSTEMS Synergy II: high performance family of DOS co- Jim Leslie processors for SBus-based SPARCstations, CPU Tel: 408-779-9909 sizes (from 80286 through 80486 33 MHz) for Fax: 408-778-1346 differing performance/budget needs and each model's CPU is fully upgradable, occupying a single SBus slot, Synergy II is 100% compatible with leading MS-DOS software and supports the SunView and Open Look user interfaces, with FPA and super VGA options available 286-12 MHz $1,195 now 386SX-16MHz $1,495 now 386-20 MHz $2,195 now 386-33 MHz $2,595 now 486-33 MHz $4,295 Feb 92 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RADLOGIC PTY LTD. 200 MFLOPs Matrix Coprocessor Contact vendor for Rob Clarke Scalable systolic archtctr availability and Tel: +61-8-260-8935 for floating point matrix pricing. Fax: +61-8-260-8937 arithmetic. Double width SBus card. Email: rclarke@austek.oz (Australia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIVERSIDE MACHINES LTD. RM03 Intel i860XR Coprocessor Available now Sales Department on single width SBus card. Contact for pricing Tel: +44-223-321-083 25-40MHz procesor, zero start approx. Fax: +44-223-321-161 wait state page accesses, $4,480 80MFlops peak. Expandable SIMM memory 2-8 MBytes. RM06 64MB version of RM03. Available Feb 92 Expandable SIMM memory Contact for pricing 4-64 MBytes. start approx. $6,300 RM07 Intel i860XP Coprocessor Available Mar 92 on double width SBus card. Contact for pricing 50MHz processor, 100MFlops start approx. peak performance. SIMM memory $10,500 to 64MB. Will sustain twice the performance of RM-3/06 on a range of vector code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOGAI INFRALOGIC INC. SBus Fuzzy Logic Accelerator Available Feb 92 Vivian Tsou Board: high performance single Contact for price Tel: 714-975-8522 board fuzzy logic accelerator Fax: 714-975-8524 designed for complex real-time fuzzy logic applications on SBus based machines, two on- board 20 MHz FC110 digital fuzzy processors, 440,000 fuzzy rule evaluations/second ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZYCAD XP-100 Simulation accelerator $55,000 now Randy Haldeman greatly increases simulation (system with SBus I/F) Tel: 415-688-7403 performace for ASIC and systems Fax: 415-688-7550 level design. Boosts performance of many CAE simulators. XP-140 As above and provides $75,000 now expansion of up to 4 simulation processors. XP-200 As above and provides $225,000 now expansion of up to 16 simulation processors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. I/O DEVICES AND INTERFACES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBUS SUPPLIER PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PRICE AVAILABILITY ----------------- ----------------------------- --------------------- ADVENT SYSTEMS SBus Scanner Interface $1995 now Geoff Wingar (UK) to Fujitsu A3/A4 scanners Tel: 011 44 734 784211 or Skantek A0 scanners Fax: 011 44 734 772153 Optional S/W for CCITT group 3 and group 4 compression, TIFF file tranfer and image viewing from user applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASTRODESIGN CORP. FINEPAC VP-1125X: Available now Mr. Goroh Takasaka image scanner interface Contact vendor for Tel: +81-44-751-1011 pricing outside Japan Fax: +81-44-751-1300 (Japan) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AURORA TECHNOLOGIES Firstscan HP Scanjet interface $995 now Sales Department Works with Aurora's parallel Tel: 617-577-1288 expanders. OpenWindows software Fax: 617-621-0265 provides full control of scanning process. Full support for unattended operation for bulk image and document scanning. Compatiblity with Calera Recognition Systems OCR engine. Email: auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HYPHEN LIMITED ECRM Pelbox: phototypesetter Contact vendor for Graham Jones (UK) interface availability and Tel: 0379 652857 AGFA/Compugraphic: film pricing Fax: 0379 644206 recorder interface Email: graham@hyphen.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKON 10105 TTL Versatec interface $ 640 now Bill Waddington 10104 Differential Versatec $ 640 now Tel: 206-728-1633 interface Fax: 206-728-1633 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERACTIVE COMPUTER InterPoint: SBus Light Pen $ 695 now Pat Cooper Runs under OS 4.1, and most Tel: 714-770-5332 windowing systems including OW Fax: 714-770-8137 Includes pen, interface card, SW driver --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KURASHIKI BOUSEKI CORP K-IS-A42/G SBus Image scanner now Mr. Sako (Japan) (400 DPI) for Island Contact for pricing Tel: +81-3-3639-7091 Write/Paint/Draw. outside Japan Fax: +81-3-3639-7099 A4-B5 paper size K-IS-A32/G SBus Image scanner now (400 DPI) for Island Contact for pricing Write/Paint/Draw. outside Japan A3-B5 papaer size --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEXAS MICROSYSTEMS SBC-70: Differential Versatec $795 now Telemarketing interface Tel: 800-627-8700 Fax: 713-933-1029 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VERSATEC Model 116 Versatec Plotter $1,200 now Lily Lee Louie interface Tel: 408-988-2800 Fax: 408-970-0287 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. NETWORKING/COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBUS SUPPLIER PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PRICE AVAILABILITY ----------------- ----------------------------- --------------------- ADAX, Inc. APC-SBX/X.25 Intelligent X.25 $2250 now Kate O'Keefe controller for speeds <=2Mbps tel: 510-548-7047 with 256k RAM & dedicated fax: 510-548-5526 VLSI coprocessor. APC-SBX/SS7 Intelligent S7 $2500 now controller for speeds <=2Mbps with 256k RAM & dedicated VLSI coprocessor. APC-SBX/Frame Relay Intelligent $2500 now Frame Relaycontroller for speeds <=2Mbps with 256k RAM and dedicated VLSI coprocessor. Associated Software: X.25 $1210 now SNDCF (IP over X.25 WAN) $ 395 now TP0 (CCITT X.224 transport layer)$395 now Switch (flexible X.25 switching $2250 now or concentration) Frame Relay $ 395 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTARES MICROSYSTEMS SBus Ethernet & Thinnet $395 now Alex Chan Controller: low-cost gateways Tel: 415-965-4326 & routers, 1 slot Fax: 415-964-2027 ConServer SCSI/Thinnet Ctlr: $845 now Ethernet & SCSI in 1 slot; also optional SCSI/Twisted Pair Ethernet 10BaseT SBus Twisted-Pair Ethernet: $445 now 10BaseT and Ethernet AUI ports, 1 slot email:antares@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AURORA TECHNOLOGIES SBus Token Ring interface $895 now Telemarketing 4MB/sec, peer to peer and Tel: 617-577-1288 server environments supported Fax: 617-621-0265 Full support for TCP/IP. Local source routing priority scheme to reduce network load. SNA protocols available, compatible with Novell 3.1.1. 400S+ 4 serial SYNC ports $995 now 800S+ 8 serial SYNC ports $1,695 now Intelligent high speed SNA, X.25, PPP/IR support available with 400S+ and 800S+./ Email: auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BINTEC COMPUTERSYSTEME ISI/Board-S Intelligent ISDN Available now Gregor Krawczuk controller w/ own processor 9,450 (DM) Tel: +49 911 99675-0 for SBus Systems. Supports Fax: +49 911 6880725 two B-Channels of the S0 interface. Email: gregor@bintec.de (Germany) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIXTON SYSTEMS S02404 4 Sync or Async serial $1150 now Herbert Rush lines, med. speed <=64kbps Tel: 617-497-2938 SM3508 8 Sync or Async serial $1900 now Fax: 617-876-2523 lines, med. speed <=64kbps ST1003 3 Sync or Async serial $1595 now lines, high speed <= 1.54 mbps SABP00: Serial AB Port, (free) now low speed <=19.2kbps STRA00 SBus Token Ring card $ 895 now Email: 72740.2276@compuserve.com Communications software from Brixton for their SBus solutions: SNIP00 TCP/IP over SNA $6000 now SSPD00 SNA Peripheral Device Interface $4500 now SLU200 SNA 3270 emulator $1950 now SRJE00 SNA 3770/RJE emulator $1950 now SLU000 Programmable Secondary LU API $1950 now SNMI00 Network Management Interface API $1950 now SSNM00 SunNet Manager Gateway to NetView $3900 now STRS00 SNA for Token Ring $ 100 now SPCTR0 Spectrum Gateway to NetView $3900 now SPPP00 Point-to-Point Protocol (Sync/Async) $ 795 now SPPPT1 High Speed Sync PPP Software $ 995 now SX2500 X.25 (TCP/IP, API and PAD) $1950 now STRP00 TCP/IP for Token Ring $ 100 now SBSC0 Bisync Protocol $ 750 now SHDLC HDLC-LAPB $ 750 now SSDLC SDLC/Primary-Secondary $ 750 now SDDVR Device Driver Interface $ 300 now SLLC2 Logical Link Control 1 and 2 $ 750 now S0PV00 OpenView Gateway to NetView $3900 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRESCENDO COMMUNICATIONS CDDI Adaptor: An SBus $1495 Jan-Mar 92 Dave de Puy FDDI interface that uses Tel: 408-732-4400 twisted-pair wire instead of Fax: 408-732-4604 optical fiber. Used with Crescendo wiring concentrators. Fully compliant with SMT 6.2, includes SNMP agent for network management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CYUOH SYSTEM GIKEN INC. SBus ISDN Card for Available now Mr. Kenji Ueno SPARCstation series: ISDN Contact for pricing Tel: +81-423-21-5441 card(2B+D) layer 1-3 outside of Japan Fax: +81-423-21-8288 (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELTEK INFORMATION SYS SB-1020 Ethernet/Cheapernet $395 now Albert Lin Interface Tel: 408-727-7785 Fax: 408-727-6059 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAFT TECHNOLOGY HS-INS64: IB ISDN board Avalible now MR. Imamura English documentation Tel: 81-298-56-5587 HS-HSDL: 2 ports serial(SYNC) in development Fax: 81-298-56-5587 SDLC, HDLC and X.25 up to 64 Contact for pricing (Japan) Kbps outside of Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELIOS - W. Germany SLIC for SPARCstations $1,500 now Jens-Uwe Mager connection Apple Localtalk Phone: +49 511 3681093 networks to Sun workstations: FAX: +49 511 3681095 provides advanced print spooling system, terminal services for Macintosh, plug-in processor-based card for SBus, h slot $2,995 now inteface card igh speed due to distributed intelligence, no jumpers, compatible w/ LocalTalk, connection via LocalTalk or Phonenet, other Apple connectivity products available Email: jum@helios.de or unido!heliosd!jum ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION IPT-230A $595 now PRESENTATION TECH. Appletalk interface SBus card Olivia Fauela Software options: Tel: 805-541-3000 uShare: transparent client/server Fax: 805-541-3037 Sun to Mac connectivity Partner Transparent peer to peer <--> Mac connectivity ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- KAGA DENSHI K.K. V120-SB: ISDN card, layer Available now Mr. Sekiguchi 1-2 V.120 support/option Contact for pricing Tel: +81-3-3942-6262 software ETHER-LINK(ISDN- outside of Japan Fax: +81-3-3942-6260 IP Bridge) (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGATO SBus Prestoserve NFS $2,300 now Tel: 415-329-7880 Accelerator with 1/2-Mbyte of Fax: 415-329-7865 NVRAM, single slot card for all SPARCstations including 1/1+/ 2/IPC/IPX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NETWORK PERIPHERALS SBus FDDI Fiber Interface: $2,495 now INC. attaches Sun SPARCstation 1, Mitch Strobin 1+, 2, IPC and other SBus bases Tel: 408-954-7300 workstations to high performance Fax: 408-954-8031 FDDI local area networks SBus FDDI Shielded Twisted $1,995 now Pair (STP) Interface: attaches Sun SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, IPC and other SBus based workstations to high performance FDDI local area networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAC TECHNOLOGY GmbH SBus/LocalTalk Interface $1,600 now Andreas Jankowsky Card(SLIC): joins Apple Tel: +49 30 342 00 31 peripherals with Sun FAX: +49 30 341 07 99 workstations Email: mcvax!unido!tub!pac!janky (Germany) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERFORMANCE Two port high speed serial I/O $1,395 now TECHNOLOGIES SBus module (PT-SBS332). Intelligent Don Turrell synchronous serial communication Tel: 716-586-6727 controller for the SBus, includes Fax: 716-586-6707 2 MB memory, CP32 (Motorola 68020) Email: dlt@pt.com 16C35 ISSC. Changeable line interface for EIA-232C/EIA-449/V.35/X.21 Token Ring Interface for SBus. Available Feb 92 16MBytes/sec TCP/IP support Contact vendor (PT-SBS340) for pricing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDUSTRADE AG ISDN Interface card $4,990 now Tel: 41-1-832-83-72 Two B-channels of 64 kBit/s Fax: 41-1-830-75-50 One D-channel of 16 kBit/s (Switzerland) Drivers and programmer's library Authorization for public ISDN (local PTTs) necessary by local distributors SL-SPARC-1 SLink for SPARC $4,990 now SLink ISDN-Gateway Ap Bundle based on the SLink ISDN interface card, allows TCP-IP internetwork routing by ISDN. Includes a single slot ISDN card, cables, external high-voltage protection, driver software, KERMIT/ISDN, SLIP/ISDN, Macintosh compatibility sofrtware (for use in networks with SLink for MAC). Primary version configured for Switzerland. Versions for France, UK, Germany available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBE, INC. SB-302 High speed syncronous Available Feb 92 Sam Perry serial controller: one port Contact for price Tel: 415-680-7722 T1/E1, one port 128Kbps, Fax: 415-680-1427 RS-232, RS-449 and V.35 interfaces supported, X.25, LAP B and WAN software support, single slot, SunOS 4.0.3 & above ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUN MICROSYSTEMS X450 2nd Ethernet Controller $395 now Local sales office Single slot card, supports Tel: 415-960-1300 both thick and thin ethernet Fax: 415-969-9131 connectors. For desktop SPARCstations ONLY. X1054A SCSI and either $1,600 now 10baseT twisted pair or thick (AUI) Ethernet. For 600MP series ONLY. X1003A FDDI single slot $2,995 now inteface card with SunNet Manager proxy for SMT 6.2, built-in test, power-up, and extended diagnostic features Sun SBus Prestoserve NFS $2,995 now Accelerator with 1-Mbyte of NVRAM. Single slot card for SPARCstation 2 and IPX. X1004A Sun Token Ring Inter- $1,200 now face card. 4- or 16-MB/sec switchable. Includes TCP/IP driver and network monitoring facilities. TMS 380 token ring chip set. X1009A Sun High-speed Serial $2,500 now Interface/SBus. Adds 4 high speed ports supporting 56kbs, 1.544Mbps (T1), or 2.048Mbps (CEPT) per port. Includes patch panel, cable and driver software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THEMIS COMPUTER TCSBUS X.25 X.25 Contoller $1,800 now Bill Kehret T1/CEPT data rates, on-bd Tel: 415-734-0870 processor, SUNOS compatable Fax: 415-734-0873 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. STORAGE and DISK CONTROLLERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBUS SUPPLIER PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PRICE AVAILABILITY ----------------- ----------------------------- --------------------- ANTARES MICROSYSTEMS SBus SCSI controller: async $495 now Alex Chan & sync SCSI, up to 4MB/sec, Tel: 415-965-4326 1 slot Fax: 415-964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELTEK INFORMATION SYS SB-1010 2nd SCSI Controller $ 495 now Albert Lin Tel: 408-727-7785 Fax: 408-727-6059 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAFT TECHNOLOGY HS-SCSI/SA: 2nd SCSI board Available now Mr. Imamura SCSI-II and active terminator Contact for pricing Tel: +81-298-56-5588 outside of Japan Fax: +81-298-56-5587 (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIHON SYSTEM Digital Cabinet: filing system Available now GIJYUTSU CO. for image data, 400 DPI, using Contact for pricing Mr. Shingo Mizutani optical disc, A4-B5 paper outside of Japan Tel: +81-3-3503-8736 Fax: +81-3-3580-7806 (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERFORMANCE SCSI SBus Module(PT-SBS420): TECHNOLOGIES provides a second fully Don Turrell independent SCSI port for the Tel: 716-586-6727 SPARCstation, available with Fax: 716-586-6707 choice of SCSIbus connections Email: dlt@pt.com Single Ended (PT-SBS420-S) $ 485 now Differential (PT-SBS420-D) $ 675 now SCSI-II SBus Module(PT-SBS430): First add-in SBus module that provides a fully compliant SCSI-II narrow/fast interface for Sun SPARCstations. SCSI performance capability of 10MB/sec. PTI SCSA compatible driver with each module that includes Adaptive Synchronous Negotiation code for maximum SCSI performance. Single Ended (PT-SBS430-S) $ 995 now Differential (PT-SBS430-D) $1095 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUN MICROSYSTEMS X1055 SCSI host adaptor card $495 now Local sales office supports up to 7 addt'l SCSI Tel: 415-960-1300 devices, and up to 2.6-GB of data Fax: 415-969-9131 5 Mbytes/sec data transfer. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. 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