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Recommended SIMM Manufacturers
SIMMs from Goldstar, Motorola, NEC, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba
have been successfully tested with the ICP Controllers. This recommendation does not im-
ply an evaluation of quality. SIMMs from other manufacturers may be equally suitable. You
can use single- and double-sided SIMMs. When using double-sided SIMMs with high power
consumption special care should be taken that both, the ICP Controller and SIMM are
properly cooled.
SIMM sizes and types which can be used on the ICP Controller :
Fast Page Mode (FPM) SIMM,
60ns (or less), Jumper S1 not set
Extended Data Out (EDO) SIMM,
50ns
(*)
,
Jumper S1 set
RAM Size
1M*32 and 1M*36 1M*32 and 1M*36 4MB
2M*32 and 2M*36 2M*32 and 2M*36 8MB
4M*32 and 4M*36 4M*32 and 4M*36 16MB
8M*32 and 8M*36 8M*32 and 8M*36 32MB
16M*32 and 16M*36 16M*32 and 16M*36 64MB
32M*32 and 32M*36 32M*32 and 32M*36 128MB
(*)
When using an EDO SIMM on the ICP Controller, jumper S1 has to be set (see last pages
of chapter A). For the operation of a Fast Page Mode SIMM S1 must remain open. We have
tested several EDO SIMMs with 60ns without any problems, but according to the specifica-
tion of the ICP Controller's Intel i960 CPU, 50ns are necessary to comply with the timing
requirements.
Obviously, the question arising at this point is: "How much cache RAM do I need ?"
In the following table, we made RAM equipment suggestions for the minimum, typical and
optimum RAM size (Note: Naturally, all ICP Controllers work flawless with the smallest
RAM size stated in column 2 of this table).
Controller Possible
SIMMs in
[MB]
SIMM equipment
Minimum Typical Optimum
GDT6118RD
GDT6128RD
4,8,16,32,64,128 8 16 32
GDT6518RD
GDT6528RD
GDT6538RD
GDT6558RD
4,8,16,32,64,128 8 16 64
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