Bus Standards

Characteristic VME IPI SCSI

type backplane I/O I/O

data width 16-32bits 16 8

bus masters multiple single multiple

Clocking Asynch Asynch Either

bandwidth 12.9 MB/s 25MB/s 5 or 1.5 MB/s

max devices 21 8 7

max length 0.5m 50m 25m

IPI = Intelligent Peripheral Interface

SCSI = Small Computer Systems Interface

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