DR11-B parallel interface

The DR11-B was a parallel interface for the UNIBUS, one which used DMA to transfer data to a user device.

The interface between the DR11-B and the user device uses a number of unidirectional control lines (below), which control data transfer; and sets of three 'status' and 'control' lines, which appear in the Status and Command Register. By appropriate manipulation of the control lines, the user device can do byte or word cycles on the bus, perform read-modify-write bus cycles, or do block 'burst' bus transfers.

Data going to the user device is buffered in a set of latches; data coming from the user device is not buffered, and must be held valid for the duration of the resultant bus cycle.

Registers

Register	Abbreviation	Address
Word Count Register	DRWC	772410
Bus Address Register	DRBA	772412
Status and Command Register	DRST	772414
Data Buffer Register	DRDB	772416

The addresses shown are for the first DR11-B in a system; additional ones are normally set to be at 772430, 772450, 772470, etc.

772410: Word Count Register (DRWC)

WC15 <---> WC00
15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00

772412: Bus Address Register (DRBA)

BA15 <---> BA00
15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00

772414: Status and Command Register (DRST)

ERROR	NEX	ATTN	MAINT	DSTAT A-C			CYCLE	READY	IE	XBA16-17		FNCT1-3			GO
15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00

772416: Data Buffer Register (DRDB)

Data15 <---> Data00
15	14	13	12	11	10	09	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00

Note: Unlike most DEC DMA devices, an overflow in the Bus Address Register does not carry into the Extended Memory bits in the CSR.

User Device Interface

User Input Signals

Signal Name	Count	Function
DAT IN	16	Data from user device
CONTROL	2	Specify type of UNIBUS cycle (DATI, etc)
CYCLE REQ	2	Either one can set the CYCLE bit, which causes a bus cycle
WC INC ENB	1	Word Count Increment Enable
BA INC ENB	1	Bus Address Increment Enable
A00	1	Bus Address Bit 0
DSTAT	3	Device Status Bits
ATTN	1	Attention bit in the DRST
SINGLE CYCLE	1	Controls use of burst mode for bus cycles

User Output Signals

Signal Name	Count	Function
DAT OUT	16	Data to user device
INITIALIZE	1	UNIBUS INIT or interlock error
FNCT	3	Function bits in the DRST
READY	1	READY bit from the DRST
BUSY	1	Bus cycle in progress
END CYCLE	1	Bus cycle is complete
GO	1	GO bit from the DRST

Implementation

It was constructed from a number of smaller FLIP CHIPs which were installed in custom 4-slot system unit backplane.

The extant DR11-B documentation does not show either the modules used in the DR11-B, or their locations in the backplane, so that information is given here.

The modules are:

• M112 - 10 x 2-input NOR gates
• M113 - 10 x 2-input NAND gates
• M116 - 6 x 4-input NOR gates
• M205 - 5 x 'D' flip-flops
• 2 x M208 - 8-bit buffer / shift-register
• M239 - 3 x 4-bit counter/register
• 2 x M611 - High speed power inverters
• M796 - UNIBUS Master Control
• M7821 - Interrupt Control
• M7219 - Bus Interface

The M7219 is a quad card; the others are all single. (Of those, the M796 and M7821 are extended length; the others are all standard length.) The M239 is used to hold the Command and Status Register.

Board locations (as seen from the board insertion side of the backplane, not the wire-wrap pin side, as is common in DEC documentation) are:

	Connector
Slot	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	UNIBUS In		M7219
2	Test board		M208	M208	M7821	M796
3	Power	M205	M611	M611	M112	M113
4	UNIBUS Out		User connector		M116	M239

Connection to the user device is via either a pair of M957 Split-Lug Cable boards, or via an M9760 (dual) Twisted Pair Cable Connector board. The M9680 (dual) board is a loopback test board, which can be inserted in place of the user connection board(s).

Power comes in on a single-width stub card in the A3 slot (as is canonical in the PDP-11/20 generation of PDP-11s).

Further reading

• DRll-B Engineering Drawings - not online at this time

External links

• DR11-B/DA11-B manual (DEC-11-HDRBA-D-D)
• DR11-B/DA11-B manual (EK-DR11B-TM-004)