July 30, 2025

Sun 3 bootrom souce - providing power to a 3/160 board

Sun 3 boards are giant VME boards. They have three 96 pin connectors, each with 3 rows of 32 pins.

If you put a sun3 board on a table with the extractor levers and serial connectors to your left, on the right will be P1 farthest away from you (on "top"), P2 in the middle, and P3 on the bottom.

We can supply power to the board through pins on the P1 ("upper") connector. Each row of pins is designated by the letter a, b, or c. Then the pins are numbered top to bottom.

The mating connector I have for P1 is nicely labeled. The "a" row is towards the back of the board and the "c" row is towards the front.

5 volts -- a32, b32, c32
-12 volts -- a31
+12 volts -- c31
Ground -- a9, a11, a15, a17, a19
Ground -- b20, b23
Ground -- c9

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