MC1 Installation and Developer's Manual

P/N 6200-15

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About This Manual

Developer Support

1 Introduction

1.1 About the MC1 Board
1.1.1 MC1 Board Components
1.2 Application Development Software Packages
1.2.1 About CT Access
1.2.2 About AG Access

2 Installing the Hardware

2.1 Introduction
2.2 System Requirements
2.3 Configuring the Hardware
2.3.1 Selecting the MVIP Clock Master
2.3.2 Configuring the MC1 Board's I/O Address
2.4 Installing the Hardware
2.5 Connecting the MC1 Board to the MC1 Bus

3 Installing the Software

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Installing Under Windows NT
3.2.1 Changing the Configuration After Installation (NT)
3.2.2 Uninstalling the Driver Software (NT)
3.3 Installing Under OS/2 Warp
3.3.1 Installing swdaemon.exe
3.3.2 Changing the Driver Configuration After Installation (OS/2)
3.4 Installing Under SCO UNIX SVR3.2 OpenServer Releases 3.0 and 5
3.4.1 Changing the Driver Configuration After Installation (SCO)
3.4.2 Uninstalling the MC1 Development Kit Version 1.5
3.4.3 Uninstalling Early Versions of the MC1 Development Kit
3.5 Installing Under UnixWare 2.1
3.5.1 Changing the Configuration After Installation (UnixWare)
3.5.2 Uninstalling the MC1 Driver Software (UnixWare)

4 Verifying MC1 Installation

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Verifying Your MC1 Installation with mc1tst
4.3 Verifying Your MC1 Installation with the SW Utility

5 Principles of Operation

5.1 Introduction
5.2 MC1 Switch Model
5.2.1 MVIP-90 Switch Model
5.2.2 MVIP-95 Switch Model
5.3 MC1 Switch Blocking
5.4 MC1 Clocking
5.4.1 MVIP Bus Clock Signals
5.4.2 MC1 Bus Clock Signals
5.4.3 MC1 Bus and MVIP Bus Clock Interaction
5.4.4 Primary MVIP Mode
5.4.5 Clocking Configuration Summary
5.5 Handling Faults
5.5.1 Recovering from Clocking Failures
5.5.2 Network Synchronization Failures
5.6 Indicator Lights (LEDs)
5.7 Removing an MC1 Board

6 Commands & Utilities

6.1 MC1 Switching Commands
6.2 MC1 Driver Commands
6.2.1 Invoking MC1 Driver Commands Using CT Access
swiCallDriver
6.2.2 Invoking MC1 Driver Commands Using SwitchPath
CxDriverCommand
MC1_CONFIG
MC1_CONFIG_CLOCK
MC1_QUERY_CONFIG
MC1_QUERY_STATUS
6.3 CT Access Clock Configuration Commands
6.3.1 Configuring the MC1 Clocks Using swiConfigBoardClock
6.3.2 Changing SEC8K Clock Source
6.3.3 Changing MC1_8K (8KREF) Clock Source
6.3.4 Configuring the MC1 Primary Master
6.3.5 Configuring the MC1 Secondary Master
6.3.6 Configuring an MC1 Slave
6.3.7 Configuring the Primary MVIP Master
6.4 MC1 Utilities
6.4.1 mc1mon
6.4.2 mc1phone
6.4.3 mc1tst
6.4.4 showconx

Appendix A Glossary

Appendix B MC1 Clocking Examples

MC1 Clocking Examples Primary Master Left 104

Secondary Master Right 105

Clock Slave 106

Primary MVIP 107

Appendix C Hardware Specifications

Mechanical Specifications PC-AT Board 110

MVIP-90 Bus Connector 110

Electrical Specifications Host Interface 110

Power Requirements 110

Environment 111

MVIP-90 Compliant Interface
Connectors PC-AT Bus 111

MVIP Bus 111

MC1 Bus 112


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