Hardware and Software Implementation of an Interface between the Unibus and the General Purpose Interface Bus.

Abstract

The Satellite Communications Laboratory at the Naval Postgraduate School uses a PDP-11/34A minicomputer to develop software in support of a satellite signal monitoring system. The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) interconnects several general measurement devices used in support of the laboratory. The laboratory uses these measurement devices for diagnostic and simulation tests related to research in the satellite signal monitoring field. This thesis discusses the development of the hardware and software interface between the PDP-11/34A Unibus and the GPIB. The interface permits high level language programs under the control of the Unix operating system (version 6) on the PDP-11/34A to access any device on the GPIB. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA127564

Entities

People

  • Ayers Haden Blocher Iii

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Assembly Languages
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Device Drivers
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Satellite Communications
  • Sequences
  • Simulations
  • System Software

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites