Xie et al., 1995 - Google Patents

An SBus monitor board

Xie et al., 1995

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15553156395366891684
Author
Xie H
Forward K
Adams K
Leask D
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Proceedings of the 1995 ACM third international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays

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During the development of computer peripherals which interface to the processor via the system bus it is often necessary to acquire the signals on the bus at the hardware level. It is difficult to attach general-purpose logic analysers and in-circuit emulators to a multiple pin …
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