Strobe Data Providing Solutions to Industry for 31 Years

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Strobe Data - Background

Founded in 1972

Initially Data General OEM

Provided real-time systems for industry and government Develop, manufacture and sell PC based compatible minicomputer systems

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Emulation Experience - 27 years

Hawk - Migrates Data General Nova and Eclipse Hardware and Operating . system to Wintel platform Operating system andOsprey - Migrates DEC PDP-11 Hardware, . Application software to Wintel platform

Kestrel Project - Will Migrate HP1000 hardware, RTE, and Application .software to Wintel platform

!!!With no changes in the original software

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!!Seamless Migration
Run your minicomputer applications today on your PC platform

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PDP-11 to Osprey Co-Processor

PDP-11/83 PDP-11/24 PDP-11/20 PDP-11/05 PDP-11/44 1988 1981 1979 1972 1970

PDP-11/93

Osprey

1990

2000

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Osprey DCJ 1 Generation

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Osprey Co-processor
Connector for Osprey Q & U

Digitals DCJ11

Intercard connector
Clock generator

FPJ11 Option

Xilinx programmable gate array

486 device emulator

Megabyte, parity memory 4

I/O detector

Interface

:Note Osprey B is a stand-alone card Osprey Q attaches to Qbus Adapter Osprey U attaches to Ubus Adapter Al Morgan

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Osprey DCJ Co-processor

Features
PDP-11/93 CPU/FPU speeds Digital DCJ/FPJ - 18 MHz Qbus/UniBus adapters Software compatibility

Zero wait state parity DRAM

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Osprey ISA

2nd Generation

ISA

Bus

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The Osprey ISA

Features

WCS Microcode - Xilinx FPGA Totally configured by host PC

Osprey PC/host software compatibility

DCJ/FPJ software compatibility DEC diags OS - applications Uses Osprey Q, Unibus adapters

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Osprey PCI

3rd Generation

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Osprey PCI

32 MB/S

132MB/S Read Write

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Osprey PCI Features

4Mx8 SRAM - PCI Bus CPU performance > 4.5 x PDP-11/93 +FPU performance = PDP-11/93 Fibre Channel - Unibus,Qbus adapter Disk Performance 20 times PDP-11/93 Host PC can directly access emulator memory
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Osprey Co-processor

Features
Container files = PDP-11 disk images PC/host Ram/disk/caching network files .RAID - etc MS-DOS, WNT, file interchange ,VT Pipes, Character Pipes MS-Net, DECnet, Novell

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Osprey Co-processor Software Compatibility

-- !!A few examples of proven compatibility
DOS11, DSM11, IAS MUMPS, RSTS RT11, TSX

+RSX, RSX11M, RSX11M

TEKTEST, VISIONIK

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More than just hardware

Virtualized I/O

PDP-11 I/O device controllers emulated by PC/host software I/O instructions trapped local - real - virtual

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PC devices, 3Com, GPIB, LPT Com/Muxes RS232/422/20ma

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Real vs Virtual I/O

Existing PDP-11 Configuration
PDP-11 system All I/O peripherals Qbus or Unibus

Virtual Device Management

Real
Osprey/PC system I/O detector Users custom devices Devices not emulated Disk & tape devices Communication devices

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Virtual

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Osprey PCI QXP in 400MHz Pentium II

27.0 MHz

16.6 Seconds

Osprey ISA DX in 400MHz Pentium II

18.0 MHz

62.9 Seconds

PDP-11/93, RD54, TK50 ~ 16 Minutes

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Osprey Enclosures
Applications Environments
Commercial
Tower PC, server class

Adverse

Industrial

MilRack ruggedized Mountable Chassis Chassis

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Commercial Tower PC Host Example

Digital`s Prioris XL server

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Adverse Mil-Rugged Osprey/PC

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Industrial Rack Mountable Osprey/PC Chassis

FCC and CE certifiable chassis Watt universal PS 500 Qbus backplane , 4 quad slots Unibus backplane for or 9 hex-height 4 custom cards Fan cooled or 356 mm H 267 mm W 483 mm D 560 kg 20

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Industrial Rack Mountable Osprey/PC Chassis

PC motherboard Osprey Q card set plugs into PC motherboard Power supply

Strobes Qbus chassis

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RMOC Q5 with 4 Qbus slots

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Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 4 UniBus slots

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Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 9 -UniBus slots

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Israel Electric - Osprey User

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Phillips Petroleum - Osprey User

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Boeing Flight Test - Osprey User

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RAF Nimarod Simulator - Osprey User

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Ford Motor Company - Osprey User

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USN Bangor Sub-Base - Osprey User

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Representative list of Osprey Users

AT&T

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Boeing Company

Cypress Semiconductor Designed Solutions

Electro Scientific Industries

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Representative list of Osprey Users

Federal Aviation Authority General Dynamics

Hughes Missile Systems Johnson Controls

IBM & Intel & Israel Electricity

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Representative list of Osprey Users

Leica UK & Litton & Los Alamos Maxim Semiconductor Company ( Nanosecond Computing (UK (Outokumpu Mintec (Canada

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Paragon Management Systems

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Representative list of Osprey Users

.Robins AFB & RF Westin Co Sandia Laboratories Transport Canada U S Navy

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Representative list of Osprey Users

(Vatek (Korea Xerox

(Webster Computers (Australia

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Osprey Co-Processor highlights!

Code and Binary compatible with PDP-11 software and application code. Emulates a wide class of PDP-11 peripherals. Full architectural emulation supports all PDP-11 software. Q-bus and Unibus adapters available for special I/O needs 99% of the time plug and play!!

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Benefits of an Osprey!

Move to a high reliability, low maintenance cost system platform Investment protection
Keep existing peripherals Retain the existing code and licenses Preserve special or custom I/O devices using Q-bus and Unibus adapters

Access to new, cost-effective technology

Replace low-density, high-cost PDP-11 mass storage peripherals with modern commodity devices Migration of multiple PDP-11 systems to a single PC Code development can continue as on a real PDP-11, Or data from the PDP-11 can be piped into new applications on the PC without disturbing the PDP-11 code.

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Summary
Trivial transition from PDP-11 to Osprey/PC Increased reliability using PC devices Improved performance

Preserves existing PDP-11 software investment

Reduced floorspace and electrical power

!!Ride Ride PC PC improvements improvements into into the the future future
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