Hytec Electronics Ltd

Data Acquisition and Control

Training tailored to suit your particular needs.

Hytec have for many years run training courses to meet the specific needs of customers. If you would like to discuss your requirements please contact us for a proposal.

A typical agenda for a 2 day course on VME/VME64x follows.

Day 1-

Introduction to Hardware Aspects of VMEBUS
Intended use compared to other bus systems (e.g. PCI)
Data transfer and Utility bus definitions
Permitted type of VME cycles
Backplane connectors and bus termination

5VME Bus – Data Transfers (1)
Addressing, Address sizes, AM codes
Register structure in a typical module
Computer/VME hardware interfaces

Arbitration and Interrupts
Bus request scheme
IACK daisy chain
Typical interrupt cycle

VME Bus Data Transfers (2)
Using an oscilloscope to show typical VME cycles

Block Modes and DMA
Block transfers
DMA - Achieving the highest speeds

Evolution of Standards
Differences VME32 to VME64
VME64x PowerPoint presentation

System Integration
Using a PC to talk to VME the Hytec way
ISA bus interface with Hytec 3330 VME controller
PCI bus interface 5331 with Hytec 3330 VME controller
Using the Hytec VDS 2081 VME bus display module
Introduction to VIKY

Day 2

VME test  language – VIKY
Introduction – Interpreted BASIC like language
VME I/O statements
Immediate commands
Non-VME commands

VIKY – Exercises

Using National instruments LabView with VME
LabViews VI’s for VME
A LabView test program for Hytec VTR2535

Simple LabView VME exercise

Programming VME in C
WindRiver’s VxWorks
Motorola MVME 2700 processor (Power PC)
Tundra Universe VME interface chip
Interrupts and DMA (single and chained)
Host / target development and debugging
Memory space mapping, AM codes and data word sizes
Accessing VME memory space
VxWorks ‘Tornado’ environment
Writing the source code
Building the target
Initialising the target
Downloading the application code
Debugging

Simple C program / VxWorks exercise

LINUX / VxWorks with VME - a demonstration

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Last modified: October 29, 2008