vmebus boards have data bus sizes of 16, 32, or 64 bits and are designed to be plugged into a backplane that has up to 21 slots for other boards . these other boards can ben cpu boards or peripheral boards providing various functions . the vmebus standard originated with the motorola versabus in 1979 which was designed using the then new mc68000 microprocessor 性能的提高主要是由于三個(gè)方面的改進(jìn):1.處理器及高速緩存性能的優(yōu)化2.降低內(nèi)存瓶頸:通過(guò)對(duì)powerplus體系結(jié)構(gòu)的改進(jìn),使內(nèi)存性能提高到582mbsmemoryreadbandwidth和640mbsburstwritebandwidth3.系統(tǒng)總線吞吐率的優(yōu)化:其他的芯片組對(duì)pci到內(nèi)存帶寬只能到70mbs,powerplusii則能達(dá)到80mbs而無(wú)須消耗額外的cpu資源。