Card Insertion and Extraction
46 – Installation
VL-486-4 Reference Manual
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NSTALLATION
The VL-486-4 card can be used alone, as a single board computer; as the only computer in a card
cage with other I/O cards; or in conjunction with several other CPUs in a multiprocessing
arrangement.
Cards must be oriented correctly in the card cage (usually with the card ejector toward the top of
the card cage). Refer to the card cage documentation for the correct way to insert STD Bus cards.
Caution
Cards inserted upside down can cause severe damage to the circuit card, the
motherboard, and possibly the power supply.
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LACEMENT
The CPU can be inserted into any available slot in an STD Bus card cage. When using an STD
32 card cage, the left most slot position is designated as Slot X and is not bussed in parallel with
the other slots. Do not insert the CPU or any I/O card into this slot; it is reserved for a bus arbiter
or a power supply card.
STD 32 B
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UIDELINES
The VL-486-4 card complies with all STD 32 specifications. If the CPU is used with other STD
32 compatible I/O cards, the highest performance will be realized by plugging all the cards into
an STD 32 card cage.
An 8-bit STD 80 card cage can be used if cost savings are a prime consideration over
performance. If the I/O cards are 8-bit STD Bus cards, or if the system is a single-board (CPU
only) design, an 8-bit STD Bus card cage is good choice. Multiprocessing is not supported in 8-
bit cages.
A variety of STD 80 (8-bit) and STD 32 (8 or 16-bit) cards can be mixed in an STD 32 card
cage. Dynamic bus sizing signals automatically determine the data bus width.