Operating principles of the VME MultiKron interface board
John K Antonishek · 1993
The MultiKron* Experimenter's Toolkit contains the VME MultiKron interface board (MIB), installation software, data logging software, and analysis software; all of the software supplied is written in C. The Toolkit allows users to take advantage of the NIST MultiKron performance measurement chip in systems that do not already have a MultiKron designed into them.The MIB is applicable to both multiprocessor systems and single-processor systems.The Experimenter's Toolkit allows researchers to obtain hands-on experience with the MultiKron performance measurement chip, without the engineering effort required to design and build a hardware interface between the MultiKron and their computer.Up to one million Trace Samples can be collected during an experiment to the MIB on-board memory; a practically-unlimited number of Samples can be collected if an optional external data-collection computer is used.