Crossbar switch backplane and its application

Author

Atac, R. ; Cook, A. ; Deppe, J. ; Fischler, M. ; Gaines, I. ; Husby, D. ; Nash, T. ; Pham, T. ; Zmuda, T. ; Eichten, E. ; Hockney, G. ; Mackenzie, P. ; Thacker, H.B. ; Toussaint, D.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

726

Lastpage

730

Abstract

A crossbar switch backplane design (bus switch backplane) is described. This backplane holds a maximum of 16 modules and allows simultaneous communications between up to eight pairs of modules. The aggregate data transfer rate on the backplane is 160 Mb/s. The bus switch backplane is an essential part of the Advanced Computer Program (ACP) Multiple Array Processor, a superconductor for site-oriented problems. The first application of this machine is in lattice gauge theory calculations. The bus switch backplane also finds ready application in data acquisition schemes based on the ACP multimicroprocessor system

Keywords

computer architecture; data acquisition; multiprocessing systems; physics computing; ACP multimicroprocessor system; Advanced Computer Program Multiple Array Processor; bus switch backplane; computer architecture; crossbar switch backplane; data acquisition; data transfer rate; Aggregates; Analytical models; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Chemical analysis; Communication switching; Connectors; Laboratories; Lattices; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34536

Filename

34536