DIA20 IBus Adapter

The DIA20 IBus Adapter (sometimes called the DIA20 In/Out Bus Controller) is an optional controller on KL10 CPUs which provides an old-style PDP-10 I/O bus (termed an 'IBus'), to allow existing PDP-10 peripherals to be used on one. Two separate IBuses are provided per CPU. (In a multi-processor system, each CPU has a separate DIA20, if configured to have one.)

Implementation

The DIA20 is connected to the EBox of the KL10 via the EBus; when no other controller on the EBus responds to a command, the DIA20 will respond, and send the command out the IBus. Similarly, interrupt requests from IBus devices are sent through to the EBox.

It consists of a number of hex boards (two M8550s and an M8551) plugged into an I/O backplane (one shared with the DMA20 Memory Bus Controller‏‎) of the KL10; these are connected to new-style I/O bus connectors mounted lower down in that rack.

External links

• DIA20 IBus Adapter Unit Description
• KL10-Based Physical Description - contains images of DIA20 backplanes and wiring, pp. 3-7-3-11; board configuration, pp. 3-27,3-28