Integrated Circuit Buses

Intel is coming out with a new uP bus called Common System Interface or CSI. The Common System Interface will also be used with FPGA's or other devices. CSI has been in development since around 2003, and is set to hit the market in 2008 with Intel's new processors. I have not yet found the standard that defines the CSI bus, so the page is some what weak... CSI is an IC Bus, so it will not drive a cable that I can tell. The CSI bus is linked of the Interface Bus 'C' page.

I also moved the ESDI bus to it's own page. The Enhanced Small Device Interface is an outdated Hard Drive interface rendered obsolete by the introduction of the IDE interface. ESDI is a Personal Computer Bus. and is linked of the Interface Bus 'E' page.

Of course SATA is the bus you want driving your hard drive, or Serial SCSI.

IC Memory Types

I added a page to cover Ovonics Unified Memory, which happen to be the same as Phase-change Memory IC's. Both types are listed off the sub-page for Non-Volatile Memory IC's. Both of these are new types of memory, so there are no manufacturers for either of these types of IC memories.

The main IC Memory page is listed here; IC Memory Types. I also updated the IC Memory Acronyms page, and the Engineering Acronyms 'On' page.

Should only be a few hundred more pages until I get the Google search bar added to all the pages...

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

Updated the buses used with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface [IPMI]. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification is the protocol portion of the standards.

The Intelligent Chassis Management Bus [ICMB] is used as a chassis to chassis interface that uses RS485 as the electrical layer.

The Intelligent Platform Management Bus [IPMB] interface is used within a particular chassis to communicate with the board controllers.

All three interface standards are listed off the Interface Buses 'I' listing.

Military Connector Specificatins

I added a new page to cover the insert arrangements for MIL 83513 connectors. The following link provides MIL83513 Pin locations. It's linked off the main MIL-DTL-83513 page that was added a while ago, but never updated. I did add a few words to the MIL-DTL-83513 page tonight, but just in passing, it's off the Military Connector specification page. I also added a page that covers MIL-83513 insert arrangements. I noticed that the MIL-DTL-32139 is out-of-date. Both of these Mil standard pages were just copies of the MIL D-sub manufacturers page, at MIL-C-24308. So I updated MIL32139 and added a page for part numbers and insert arrangemets.

Here is the listing of the main page for Manufacturers of Military Connectors. And the main page of Manufacturers of Connectors.