KB11-B CPU
The KB11-B CPU is the earlier CPU for the PDP-11/70. It is heavily based on the PDP-11/45's KB11-A CPU; the -11/70 is basically an -11/45 with a cache, more main memory, and provision for high/speed I/O device controllers for MASSBUS devices.
Full PDP-11 Memory Management and the cache were standard on all KB11-B's. It used a special 32-bit wide memory bus, the Main Memory Bus, unique to the -11/70, for its bus to main memory; in addition to the speedup of doubling the width, this bus also allowed it to have up to 4 mega-bytes of main memory.
All devices were attached to a separate UNIBUS; DMA devices could gain access to the memory via a UNIBUS map which connected the two, and also mapped UNIBUS addresses to main memory addresses. High-speed devices could be attached to MASSBUS controllers.
The optional FP11-B Floating-Point Processor (full FP11 floating point), and up to four RH70 MASSBUS controllers plugged into the CPU's backplane.
Boards
The basic KB11-B consisted of fifteen hex boards:
- M8130 Data Paths
- M8131 General Registers and ALU Control
- M8132 Instruction Register Decode and Condition Codes
- M8133 ROM and ROM Control
- M8134 Processor Data and UNIBUS Registers
- M8135 Trap and Miscellaneous Control
- M8136 UNIBUS and Console Control
- M8137 System Address Paths
- M8138 System Status Registers
- M8140 System Descriptor amd Console Cables
- M8141 UNIBUS Map
- M8142 Cache Control
- M8143 Cache Address Memory
- M8144 Cache Data Memory
- M8145 Cache Data Paths
and a quad board:
- M8139 Timing Generator
Board sharing
The M8130 through M8139 boards are based on those of the KB11-A CPU of the -11/45; the rest implement the -11/70's extensions (cache - M8142-45, UNIBUS Map - M8141, etc).
In fact, as reported (in the thread below), many of the boards are so similar that the M813x of the KB11-B can be used in place of the M810x of the KB11-A. Comparing an actual M8101 with an M8131, the etch of the former is given as "M8101B" and the latter is given as "M8101 C-P2" (although other M8131's are reported to use the M8101B etch). The traces are mostly identical, but there are a few minor differences.
