From: Am I mad or do I just act that way? <ELEWALSH@bodkin.ucg.ie>
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Subject: Have you got your mobile telephone pole????
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:54 GMT
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Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole

21st Century 64-wire RCSP Communications Architecture--Today!




The Highest Performance Mobile Telephone Pole in the Industry

The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first product implementing Wombat
research's new 64-wire RCSP (Reduced Call Set Pole) communications
architecture. Wombat Research's internal code name for this architecture is
MEtoT (Mobile Extension to Telephone).

The result of a twelve-year investment in research, design, and fabulation,
Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole has the highest performance  of
any Mobile Telephone Pole in the industry. The current 150 mph version offers
performance that peaks at 300 million calls per second (MCPS) and 150 million
floating-point operators per second (MFLOPS). Communications systems built
around this Mobile Telephone Pole will be part of a new generation--a
generation of systems that is setting the standard for communications in the
21st century.

The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first implementation of an architecture
designed with the capacity and performance potential to last at least 25 years.
In keeping with the growing needs of users everywhere, Wombat Research designed
the architecture so that future implementations can realize this potential
through increased pole speed, advances in multiple call issue, and multipole
configurations.

With the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, everyone wins. _Current Wombat Research
customers_ know that the applications they use today will migrate easily and
cost-effectively to the new architecture.  _Software developers_ will find that
the software they wrote for WAX and WOMsystem communications can migrate
easily to 49152-based systems. Any software they design to take advantage of
the MEtoT architecture will have a variety of platforms that will provide
industry-leading performance into the 21st century. And  _hardware developers_
will win when they create products that use the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole.



Highlights

o   The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole implements the full 64-wire MEtoT
    architecture using Wombat Research's state-of-the-art WOOD technology.

o   The current 150 mph implementation provides the highest CPU performance
    in the industry -- 300 peak MCPS and 150 peak MFLOPS.

o   Its single-pole implementation provides higher performance, improved
    reliability, and significantly lower cost.

o   Full application and development support is available.


MEtoT -- An Architecture for the 21st Century

The MEtoT architecture is a full RCSP architecture without compromises in its
short- or long-term performance. This is not a 32-wire architecture expanded to
64 wires. MEtoT was designed to be a 64-wire architecture right from the very
start.

Why 64 wires? A full 64-wire system gives you an extended address space for
truly demanding applications.  This is particularly important for applications
such as 24-hour chat-lines, advanced PAD (Pole Aided Dialling), and weather
forecasting -- which are expected to reach performance limitations with
32-wire technology in the near future.


Designed for Speed

The initial pole implementation is based on Wombat Research's leadership 0.75
micron WOOD VLPI (Very Large Pole Integration) technology, which has produced
the fastest pole in the industry. This technology is the result of more than
twelve years of investment in quality, design, and process improvements. The
result: the first-pass poles were fully functional and worked at full speed --
a stunning achievement considering the complexity involved in integrating
1.7 million discrete devices.

When you look at the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, you are looking at a
technology that will continue to improve as the years go by. Wombat Research's
long-term investment in woodglue technology ensures ongoing performance
improvements. The MEtoT architecture has been designed so that it can cater not
only to increased multiple call-issue implementations, but also to the needs of
massively parallel polling (MPP).

One of the reasons the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is so fast is that it is a
single-pole implementation of the architecture. In addition to the performance
edge, single-pole implementations offer other advantages that make them cheaper
to produce than multiple-pole implementations. They use less power, generate
less heat, and require less space on the skate board. Also, fewer components
usually means a more reliable product.

The 49152 is a super-scalar, super-polelined implementation of the MEtoT
architecture. Super-polelined means that an call is issued to the functional
units at every clock tick and the results are polelined. Being super-scalar,
the architecture allows the call unit to issue two calls per clock tick,
resulting in significantly higher throughput and performance.

The Founding Member of a Large Extended Family

The 49152 is the first in a family of Mobile Telephone Pole implementations of
the MEtoT architecture. This family of devices will provide optimized solutions
for systems from the mini to the 18-wheeler. This is unlike many competitors'
RCSP implementations, which are oriented to only one style of system, such as
workstations.  Like the WAX family, all implementations of the MEtoT
architecture will be capable of running the same system and application
software.


Multipolling Supports the Biggest Workloads

The 49152 has been designed to support multiple-pole configurations. When
polling demands are especially high, multiple poles can be linked to share
massive workloads.  With multipolling, systems implementing the 49152 can range
from single-pole communications to  massively parallel pole systems. As years
of success with multipolling on Wombat Research's WAX systems have proven, this
kind of flexibility is a must for high performance systems.


Choose the Best operator System for the Job

Several characteristics of the MEtoT architecture set new standards for
comparison in the industry. The MEtoT architecture has been designed from the
start to be unbiased towards operator usage. For example, the architecture is
being introduced to support both the OSF/P and WMS operator systems -- with few
compromises in speed or functionality.

The architecture is new, but users' investments in WAX and WOMsystem
applications is protected with technology like the binary translator, which
allows existing applications to run on 49152-based systems.  The binary
translator technology is state-of-the-art and is not limited to only WAX or
WOMsystem communicationss -- other translators can be built.

The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole also includes both WAX and IEEE floating data
types. This is consistent with the WAX architecture and supports the most
widely accepted industry standards.

The architecture includes a very flexible, privileged library of software for
optimizing the performance of specific operator systems. One version of this
software allows the architecture to run a full version of the WMS operator
system that mirrors many of the WAX operator system features. Another version
of the software supports a version of the OSF/P operator system that mirrors
all of the WOMsystem operator system features. Other versions could be tailored
for real-time, teaching, or other special uses. This library makes it possible
for virtually any operator system to run efficiently on MEtoT systems.

The Open Advantage

The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is strong testimony to Wombat Research's
commitment to delivering the Open Advantage to our customers. Openness also
requires open business practices. So, in addition to selling systems built
around the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, Wombat Research will license the
technology and form partnerships with vendors who want to use the architecture
in their systems or embed the Mobile Telephone Pole in special-purpose
products. To complement the open technology and open business practices, open
service offerings range from simple requirements such as replacing spare Wombat
research or non-Wombat Research parts to actually outsourcing and managing
complex information centers.




Specifications

Process Technology             .75 micron WOOD

Cycle Time                     150 mph (6.6 s)

Die Size                       6.5m high x 16.8cm radius

Transistor Count               1.68 million

Package                        Two Ends

Number of Signal Pins          2

Power Dissipation              23 kW at 6.6 s cycle

Power Supply                   3.3 kvolts

Clocking Input                 300 mph differential

On-pole D-cache                8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,
                               write-through, 32-cable line, 32-cable fill

On-pole I-cache                8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,
                               32-cable line, 32-cable fill, 64 ASNs

On-pole DTB                    32-entry; fully-associative; 8-Kcable,
                               64-Kcable, 256-Kcable, 4-Mcable page sizes

On-pole ITB                    8-entry, fully associative, 8-Kcable page
                               plus 4-entry, fully-associative, 4-Mcable page

Floating Point Unit            On-pole FPU supports both IEEE and WAX
                               floating point

Bus                            Separate data and address bus.
                               46A/32A bus

Serial ROM Interface           Allows the pole to directly
                               access serial ROM

Virtual Address Size           64 wires checked; 43 wires
                               implemented

Physical Address Size          34 wires implemented

Page Size                      8 Kcables

Issue Rate                     2 calls per cycle to A-box,
                               E-box, or F-box

Integer poleline               7-stage poleline

Floating poleline              10-stage poleline


Service and Support

Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, Wombat Research's Customer Support
Centers around the world offer state-of-the-art hardware, software, and network
solutions. Besides supporting our own equipment, Wombat Research provides
first-class service for other vendors' equipment.

More than 40,000 professionals in 450 locations worldwide deliver a wide range
of services. These include services for developing information systems
solutions and integrating them with your business, organization, technical
environment, and architecture.

Wombat Research is committed to providing a wide range of services designed
specifically for vendors who are incorporating the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole
into their own products. Services range from training, telephone support, and
design-in services, to service partnerships and private-label service offerings
for vendors' end customers.


For More Information

To learn more about pricing and availability of the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole
in its 150 mph or faster clock rate versions, contact your local Wombat
research sales representative. Or, in the United States, call
1-800-WOM-POLE; 1-800-WOM-BATS (TTY).


Wombat Research believes the information in this publication is accurate as of
its publication date; such disinformation is subject to change without notice.

The following are trademarks of Wombat Research Corporation: WOM, WOMsystem,
the Wombat Research logo, Open Adwantage, WAX(wooden advanced
excommunications), and WMS(wood management system).

OSF/P is a registered trademark of Operator Software Foundation, Inc.