Engineering topics

Donner, M. D.

Publications and source records attributed to Donner, M. D..

2 records

NASA NTRS1978

UNIBUS monitor for PDP 11

A UNIBUS monitor was designed and constructed to facilitate development of hardware interfaces with the PDP 11 minicomputer. The monitor provides useful displays of UNIBUS conditions and provides the user with a flexible diagnostic tool. It can also serve as a simple display and data entry device, permitting extremely simple input/output (I/O) for development software. At this time, the monitor is being used with the DSN planetary radar system, which uses a PDP 11.

Donner, M. D.↗

NASA NTRS1977

Digital high density (80 Mb/s) tape

Work with a state-of-the-art high density PCM tape recorder reproducer system is described. The tape recorder is designed for 80 Mb/s operation at an overall bit error rate of .00001and for 40 Mb/s operation at .000001. The article describes the process of measuring the error rate. Also detailed is a data rate buffer designed for use in recent radar experiments and generalizable to most potential uses of the recorder system.

Donner, M. D.↗