UPG3696 Upgrade Kit for the GCA
3696 Stepper
Product Description
The GCA/D.W.Mann 3696 stepper produces master patterns for
integrated circuit fabrication and consists of a system
controller, a rack of electronics and a micro-reduction camera.
H&L Associates' UPG3696 package is designed to increase the
efficiency and reliability of the stepper by providing the
hardware and software necessary to replace the original Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11/04 system controller with an
IBM-PC/MS-DOS compatible desktop computer (IBM-PC).
The IBM-PC will completely replace the PDP-11, its console
terminal, floppy disk drives, printer and other peripherals. The
maintenance problems associated with the PDP-11 are eliminated,
and the features of an IBM-PC are made available to the user e.g.
hard disk storage, local area networks, PC-based IC design
software.
The hardware in the UPG3696 package comprises the following:
- UPG3600-PIOA printed circuit board for installation inside
the PC
- UPG3600-PIOB printed circuit board for installation inside
the stepper
- 3 (three) 40-conductor ribbon cables to connect these boards
together
The companion UPG3696 System Software duplicates the operation of
the original equipment software, but differs from the original in
that:
- a text mode user interface (TMUI), with windows, dialogue
boxes, pulldown menus and mouse support is used for most
configuration, data file and setup operations. Context
sensitive on-line help is available.
- floppy disk (RX02 style, 8" size) support is no longer
required. Data files can be generated from several sources
and may reside on local or network drives.
Package Contents
- one UPG3600-PIOA printed circuit board (16-bit ISA bus)
- one UPG3600-PIOB printed circuit board (UNIBUS)
- three 40-conductor ribbon cables
- System Software on a PC/MS DOS compatible diskette (3.5")
- Installation, Operation and Technical manual
System Requirements
Hardware
In order to install the UPG3696 software and accompanying I/O
board, the user must provide a PC/MS DOS compatible, Intel 80x86
based computer with the following minimum specifications :
- a 486 CPU with a clock speed of 66 MHz or greater
- one 16-bit ISA bus expansion slot
- PC/MS DOS Version 5.0 or higher
- CGA,EGA/VGA or Monochrome video display
- one 1.44M floppy disk drive or network connection
The UPG3696 upgrade kit supplies the additional printed circuit
boards and cabling required to complete the installation.
The H&L supplied UPG3600-PIOA board is shipped with the following
jumper settings:
- NO Interrupt Request (IRQ) jumpers installed
- Memory mapped I/O at hexadecimal address CCC0:0000
If these settings conflict with those of other devices installed
in the desktop PC, then the UPG3600-PIOA board must be
reconfigured. Information on reconfiguring the UPG3600-PIOA board
will be found in Appendix I of this document.
Software
UPG3696 programmes should be run under a version of PC/MS-DOS
greater than or equal to 5.0. It is recommended that the entire
contents of the UPG3696 System Software diskette be copied to a
suitably named directory (e.g. C:\UPG3696) on the user's hard
disk.
The UPG3696 software also requires that the device driver
ANSI.SYS (or its equivalent) be resident in memory. A line
similar to
device=ansi.sys or device=c:\dos\ansi.sys
should appear in the user's CONFIG.SYS file. Alternatively, the
programme ANSI.COM (supplied on the UPG3696 System Software
diskette) can be executed before running UPG3696.EXE. This will
install ANSI screen support, much as ANSI.SYS would.
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