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SPARC/CPU-54
Reference Guide
P/N 220991 Revision AA
May 2003

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SPARC/CPU-54 v
Contents
Using This Guide
Other Sources of Information
Safety Notes
Sicherheitshinweise
1 Introduction
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4
OpenBoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4
Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
CPU Board Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
SPARC/CPU-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-6
SPARC/CPU-54T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7
Standard Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

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Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Product Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Order Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
2Installation
Action Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Power Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Hardware and Software Upgrades and Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
IO-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
SPARC/IOBP-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Solaris Driver Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Setting the SCSI Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
SCSI 1 Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
SCSI 2 Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Switch Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
Board Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Backplane Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
Installing the CPU Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Removing the CPU Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17
Powering Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Boot Devices OTP PROM and Flash EPROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
User Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18
Installing Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19
Solaris 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Solaris Driver Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

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3 Controls, Indicators, and Connectors
Front Panel of the SPARC/CPU-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-4
Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5
Abort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5
Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6
Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6
Serial I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-7
Keyboard/Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-8
SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-9
On-Board Connectors of the SPARC/CPU-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
4 OpenBoot Firmware
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
CORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-3
CORE Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-5
CORE Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6
POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6
OpenBoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6
Optional Boot Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7
Boot Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7
OBDIAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-10
VxWorks Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-13
NVRAM Boot Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
SCSI Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-15
All SCSI Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-16
Single Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-17
Group of Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-17
Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-17
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-18

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Displaying System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Ethernet Address and Host ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
ID PROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Resetting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21
Activating OpenBoot Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
5 Maps and Registers
Address Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Status and Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
User LED Control Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
User LED 1 Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
User LED 2 Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Control and Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Watchdog Timer and Temperature Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Watchdog Timer and Temperature Control Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Watchdog Timer Trigger Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
SYSFAIL and ACFAIL Interrupt Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Reset Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
System Configuration Identification Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Seven-Segment LED Display Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Switch Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Serial Protocol Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Rotary Switch Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

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Switch 4 and 5 Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-17
Switch 800 Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-18
Timer Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
Timer Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-19
Timer Initial Control Register L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-20
Timer Initial Control Register U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-20
Timer Counter Status Register L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-20
Timer Counter Status Register U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-20
RS-422 Control and Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
Ethernet Control and Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
A Troubleshooting
B Battery Exchange
Index
Product Error Report

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Tables
Introduction
Table 1 Standard Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Table 2 Product Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9
Table 3 Excerpt from the SPARC/CPU-54 Ordering Information for CPU Boards . . . . . . . .1-10
Table 4 Excerpt from the SPARC/CPU-54 Ordering Information for Memory Modules . . . .1-10
Table 5 Excerpt from the SPARC/CPU-54 Ordering Information for Accessories . . . . . . . .1-11
Installation
Table 6 Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4
Table 7 Maximum Power Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Table 8 Maximum Power Consumption with SPARC/MEM-54 Installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Table 9 Switch Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-13
Table 10 Customizing Solaris 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-20
Table 11 Required Solaris Package for Solaris 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Table 12 Devices and Their Appropriate Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21
Table 13 Hardware Node Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Table 14 Instance Number Assignment for SPARC/CPU-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22
Table 15 Flash Segmentation and Write Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-23
Controls, Indicators, and Connectors
Table 16 Description of Front Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Table 17 On-Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-10
Table 18 P2 Backplane Connector Signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-10

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OpenBoot Firmware
Table 19 Boot Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Table 20 Device Alias Definitions for SCSI#1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Table 21 Device Alias Definitions for SCSI#2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Table 22 Other Device Alias Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Table 23 OBDIAG Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Table 24 Setting Configuration Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Table 25 Diagnostic Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Table 26 Commands to Display System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Maps and Registers
Table 27 PCI Addresses Considered by the PCI-to-EBus2 Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Table 28 System Configuration Register Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Table 29 User LED 1 Control Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Table 30 User LED 2 Control Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Table 31 Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Table 32 Control and Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Table 33 Watchdog Timer and Temperature Control Status Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Table 34 Watchdog Timer Trigger Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Table 35 SYSFAIL and ACFAIL Interrupt Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Table 36 Reset Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Table 37 System Configuration Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Table 38 Seven-Segment LED Display Control Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
Table 39 Serial Protocol Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Table 40 Rotary Switch Status Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Table 41 Rotary Switch Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Table 42 Switch 4 and 5 Status Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Table 43 Switch 800 Status Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Table 44 Timer Control Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
Table 45 Timer Initial Control Register L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
Table 46 Timer Initial Control Register U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
Table 47 Timer Counter Control Register L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
Table 48 Timer Counter Control Register L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
Table 49 RS-422 Control and Status Register. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21
Table 50 Ethernet Control and Status Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22

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Figures
Introduction
Figure 1 Function Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
Figure 2 Block Diagram of the CPU Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Figure 3 SPARC/CPU-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Figure 4 SPARC/CPU-54T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7
Installation
Figure 5 SCSI Termination Concept of SPARC/CPU-54 and IOBP-54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-11
Figure 6 Location of Switches on Board’s Top Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12
Figure 7 Location of Switches on Board’s Bottom Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-13
Controls, Indicators, and Connectors
Figure 8 SPARC/CPU-54 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-3
Figure 9 Front Panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-4
Figure 10 Twisted-Pair Ethernet Connector Pinout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6
Figure 11 Serial A+B Connector Pinout RS-232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-7
Figure 12 26-Pin Serial A+B Connector Pinout RS-422 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Figure 13 Keyboard/Mouse Connector Pinout SUN-Type Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-8
Figure 14 Keyboard/Mouse Connector Pinout PS/2-Type Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-8
Figure 15 68-Pin Ultra-Wide SCSI Connector Pinout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-9
Figure 16 P2 VMEbus Connector Pinout Rows Z-B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-11
Figure 17 P2 VMEbus Connector Pinout Continued Rows C+D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-12

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OpenBoot Firmware
Figure 18 System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Figure 19 OBDIAG Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Figure 20 48-bit (6-byte) Ethernet Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
Figure 21 32-bit (4-byte) Host ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

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Using This Guide
This Reference Guide is intended for users qualified in electronics or electri-
cal engineering. Users must have a working understanding of Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI), VMEbus, and telecommunications.
Conventions
Notation Description
1234 All numbers are decimal numbers except when used with the nota-
tions described below
0000000016 Typical notation for hexadecimal numbers (digits are 0 through F),
e.g. used for addresses and offsets
00002Same for binary numbers (digits are 0 and 1)
xGeneric use of a letter
nGeneric use of numbers
n.nn Decimal point indicator is signaled
Bold Character format used to emphasize a word
Courier Character format used for on-screen output
Courier+Bold Character format used to characterize user input
Italics Character format for references, table, and figure descriptions
<text> Typical notation used for variables and keys
[text] Typical notation for optional parameters
... Repeated item
.. Ranges
Note: No danger encountered. Pay attention to important information
marked using this layout
Caution Possibly dangerous situation: slight injuries to people or damage to
objects possible

xvi SPARC/CPU-54
Revision History
Order
No. Revision Date Description
212466 AA February 2001 Preliminary Installation Guide
21466 AB May 2001 Corrected “Expansion”page -xxi;
Removed interfaces section in chapter 1;
Removed block diagram of I/O board, infor-
mation on I/O-board installation, connector
pinouts of I/O-board and created separate
Installation Guide for I/O-board;
Corrected Eth 1 and Eth 2 in Figure 1 “Func-
tion Blocks”page 1-3;
Removed table “Interfaces on the CPU
Board”on page 1-4;
Corrected Figure 2 “Block Diagram of the
CPU Board”page 1-5;
Corrected power consumption of SMEM
board in Table 7 “SPARC/CPU-54 Maxi-
mum Power Consumption”page 2-6;
Added “Software Requirements”page 2-7;
Corrected safety note in “SPARC/IOBP-54”
page 2-9;
Corrected switch settings of SW4-1, SW4-2,
SW5-2, and SW5-4 in Table 10 “Switch Set-
tings”page 2-11;
Added “Solaris Driver Package”page 2-10;
Corrected boot flash writing information in
“Booting”page 2-16;
Corrected “Installing Solaris”page 2-17;
Corrected “Setting the SCSI Termination”
page 2-22;
Corrected Figure 6 “SCSI Termination Con-
cept of SPARC/CPU-54 and IOBP-54”
page 2-24;
Corrected pinout of Figure 11 “26-Pin Serial
A+B Connector Pinout RS422”page 3-8;

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212466 AB May 2001 Corrected pinout 19 and 62 in Figure 14 “68-
Pin Ultra-Wide SCSI Connector Pinout”
page 3-10;
Corrected Table 18 “On-Board Connectors”
page 3-11 and Table 19 “P2 Backplane Con-
nector Signals”page 3-11;
Corrected pinout row Z in Figure 15 “P2
VMEbus Connector Pinout Rows Z-B”
page 3-12 and row D in Figure 16 “P2 VME-
bus Connector Pinout Continued Rows
C+D”page 3-13;
Corrected “CORE”page 4-3;
Corrected introduction to CORE commands
in “CORE Commands”page 4-6;
Corrected screen shot in “Boot Devices”
page 4-7;
Added “POST”page 4-6; Added the
“OBDIAG”page 4-10;
Corrected “Diagnostics”page 4-15;
Editorial changes
212466 AC June 2001 Corrected SW4-3 and SW4-4 in Table 10
“Switch Settings”page 2-11;
212466 AD July 2001 Added information on VxWorks in
“VxWorks Support”page 4-13;
Added information on PCI Control Register
on page 4-18;
212466 AE August 2001 Added the “Sicherheitshinweise”chapter
212466 AF September 2001 Revised “Safety Notes”page xix and
“Sicherheitshinweise”page xxiii;
Added information on the execution of the
CORE firmware in “POST”page 4-6;
Order
No. Revision Date Description

xviii SPARC/CPU-54
216116 AA June 2002 Modified “Safety Notes”page xxi and
“Sicherheitshinweise”page xxv; modified
Figure 2 “Block Diagram of the CPU Board”
page 1-5; replaced EN 50081/2 with EN
55022/4 in Table 1 “Standard Compliance”
page 1-8; modified and updated section
“Ordering Information”page 1-9; removed
table “Qualified Memory Modules”and
accompanying safety note in section “Mem-
ory Modules”page 2-8; modified section
“Setting the SCSI Termination”page 2-10;
corrected description of switch SW5-4 in
Figure 5 “SCSI Termination Concept of
SPARC/CPU-54 and IOBP-54”page 2-11;
modified description of switches 4-3, 4-4, 5-4,
7-1 and 7-2 in Table 9 “Switch Settings”
page 2-13; added Figure 7 “Location of
Switches on Board’s Bottom Side”page 2-13;
modified sections “Boot Devices OTP PROM
and Flash EPROM”page 2-18 and “User
Application”page 2-18; added information
on problem with VMEbus read errors and
Solaris 8 version 4/01 to “Installing Solaris”
page 2-19 and the “Troubleshooting”chap-
ter; moved section “Battery Exchange”to
Appendix B; changed Table 15 “Flash Seg-
mentation and Write Protection”page 2-23;
added description of Ethernet LEDs in
Table 16 “Description of Front Panel LEDs”
page 3-4; modified section “Serial I/O”
page 3-7; deleted section “PCI Control Regis-
ter”; modified section “OBDIAG”page 4-10;
added chapter “Maps and Registers”page 5-
1 from Reference Guide with following mod-
ifications: corrected description of signal
ID[3..0] in “System Configuration Identifica-
tion Register”page 5-14; modified descrip-
tion of the Serial Protocol Status register
page 5-16; changed description of bits 0-4 in
Table 42 “Switch 4 and 5 Status Register”
page 5-17; modified description of the RS-
422 Control and Status register page 5-21
220063 AA January 2003 Changed document type to “Reference
Guide”; added note on EN 55022 non-com-
pliance to sections “EMC”page xxi, “EMV”
page xxv, “Standard Compliance”page 1-8,
and “SCSI”page 3-9
Order
No. Revision Date Description

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220991 AA May 2003 Corrected pinout of RS-422 interface
Added information on termination when
using RS-422 interfaces
Order
No. Revision Date Description