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Strobe Data Providing Solutions Strobe Data Providing Solutions to Industry for 31 Yearsto Industry for 31 Years

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Strobe Data - Background Strobe Data - Background

Founded in 1972

Initially Data General OEM

Provided real-time systems for industry and government

Develop, manufacture and sell PC based compatible minicomputer systems

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”“Seamless Migration!! “Run your minicomputer applications

today on your PC platform”

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Hawk - Migrates Data General Nova and Eclipse Hardware and Operating system to Wintel platform .

Osprey - Migrates DEC PDP-11 Hardware, Operating system and Application software to Wintel platform .

Kestrel - Migrates HP1000 hardware, RTE, and Application software to Wintel platform.

With no changes in the original software!!!

Emulation Experience - 27 years

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DG Nova/Eclipse to Hawk Co-Processor

Hawk

1987

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PDP-11 to Osprey Co-Processor

Osprey

PDP-11/83

PDP-11/20

PDP-11/93

PDP-11/05 PDP-11/44PDP-11/24

1970

1995

1972

1988

1979

1981

1990

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HP1000 to Kestrel Co-Processor

KESTREL

2116A2115A2114A

A-SERIESA600,A700A900A400A990

2100

21MX - M21MX - E21MX - F

L -SERIES

196619671968

2001

1971

197419761978

1980 1982198319861990

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Seamless MigrationSeamless MigrationWindows 2000Co-Processor

Emulator

Custom Legacy

Hardware

RTEFortran

AssemblyCobol

Application

Legacy Hardware

RTEFortran

AssemblyCobol

Application

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Co-Processor Enclosures Co-Processor Enclosures

Applications EnvironmentsCommercial Adverse Industrial

Tower PC, server class

Mil-Rugged Chassis

Rack Mountable Chassis

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CommercialTower PC Host Example

HP’s Vectra

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Adverse Mil-Rugged Kestrel/PC

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Industrial Rack Mountable PC Chassis

•FCC and CE certifiable chassis•450 Watt universal PS

•Fan cooled

•Unibus backplane for4 or 9 hex-height

custom cards

•267 or 356 mm H 483 mm W 560 mm D

•20 kg

•HP1000 backplane , 10 - slots

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Industrial Rack Mountable PC Chassis

Kestrel card plugs into PCmotherboard

Strobe’s LegacyHardware Chassis

PC motherboard

Power supply

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Rack Mount Hawk Chassis DG 4 - Slots

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Rack MountOsprey Chassis 4 -UniBus slots

Rack MountOsprey Chassis 4 -UniBus slots

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Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 9 -UniBus slots

Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 9 -UniBus slots

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Rack Mount Kestrel Chassis 10-Slot

Rack Mount Kestrel Chassis 10-Slot

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Rack Mount Kestrel Chassis 10-Slot

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Rack Mountable Custom OEM Chassis 5.25” Qbus, PC

Rack Mountable Custom OEM Chassis 5.25” Qbus, PC

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Strobe Hardware Co-Processor Strobe Hardware Co-Processor

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Co-Processor ArchitectureCo-Processor Architecture

3232 MB/SMB/S

132MB/S Read Write132MB/S Read Write

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Benefits of the Co-Processor Move to a high reliability, low maintenance cost system

platform

Investment protection– Keep existing peripherals– Retain the existing code and licenses– Preserve special or custom I/O devices using legacy bus adapter

Access to new, cost-effective technology– Replace low-density, high-cost legacy mass storage peripherals

with modern commodity devices– Migration of multiple legacy family systems to a single PC– Code development can continue like on the real legacy system, Or

data from the legacy application can be piped into new applications on the PC without disturbing the legacy code.

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Co-Processor Legacy System Highlights Code and Binary compatible with legacy software and

application code.

Emulates a wide class of legacy peripherals.

Full architectural emulation supports all legacy software.

Legacy Interface Controller available for custom I/O needs

99% of the time plug and play!!

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Summary Summary

Ride PC improvements into the future!Ride PC improvements into the future!

Trivial transition from legacy system to Co-Processor

Increased reliability using PC devices

Preserves existing legacy software investment

Improved performance

Reduced floorspace and electrical power