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A PCI links Page with Plenty of PCI links

This page is primarily intended as an engineering resource for people who need to deal with computers built around the PCI bus. It's reason for being is that there is no centralized database of PCI device design info. This database is entirely user-supported; all the data has been, and continues to be, furnished by those working in the PCI market.

Feel free to add info for the use of others!

But first - a short plug......Mitsi provides design services for PCI based computers and PCI-based cards. The PCI Local Bus is a high-performance bus that provides a processor-independent data path between the PCI CPU and high-speed PCI peripherals.

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Check out this \ from Dr. Woodward's Brain and Spinal Cord Neuron analyzer. This display of 13 living brain neurons was captured with a custom built VME-based 12.5 ns cycle time DSP processor with a high-speed differential A/D. It also has a whole bunch of stuff that only a department of Neuorophysiology and Neuropharmacology understands. The system amplifies the neuron signal from 0.0000003 Volts and captures it to disk after filtering and triggering on the signal of interest

Starting places - sources of Information:

	CompactPCI Systems is the only magazine dedicated entirely to the CompactPCI technology. Each issue features techical articles, standards updates, new products and the latest news. Topics covered include Telecom, High Availability, Hot Swap and more.
	PCI Special Interest Group A neat page from the group that owns (and sells) the spec. These guys are the official source of all kinds of PCI information, especially the PCI Specification itself.
	PCI Viewer Utility Lets you view the configuration space for all your PCI devices. Works only on Windows-NT, on Intel, Alpha, or PowerPC processors (and you'll need administrator privileges to run it).
	A PCI Viewer Utility
	PCItree Michael Reusch's program to show PCI configuration space in tree format, with editing capability. For Win95 and NT 4.0.

PCI Bus Resources - Small Form Factor PCIs

CompactPCI

PICMG , PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group.

Ziatech , CompactPCI computers.

Prolog , CompactPCI computers and peripherals.

Gespac , CompactPCI computers and peripherals.

VME things .

PC/104

PC/104 is an embedded-PC Standard.

PC/104 Specification .

PC/104 Consortium .

CardBus

PCMCIA Home Page

Inside PC Card: CardBus and PCMCIA Design

IndustrialPCI .

PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC)

comp.arch.bus.vmebus Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) .

PCI Bus Resources - Companies that specialize in PCI products

Hardware

Maxlock - makes a PCI Prototyping board

PLX PCI Products.

offers four PCI bus interface chips that address a range of adapter and embedded system applications. Applications include switching hubs, routers or other processor-based embedded systems that use PCI bus.

V3 Semiconductor

PCI bridges and other peripheral components.

Advanced Microcomputer Systems

PCI Bus Design Tools prototyping cards, extenders, etc.

Cores

Maxlock - PCI Cores and prototyping aids
You can download and try the full VHDL source codes and documentation to their EuCore PCI interface.

Some search engines of the companies

Intel Corporate Search , Intel.

TI Semiconductor Search , Texas Instruments

EG3: Electronic Engineering Net Resources , EG3 Communication Inc

Search the Synopsys Web Site , Synopsys

PCI Bus Resources - Articles, Magazines, Books, etc.

ISD

Integrating soft core proves to be hard job by Richard Goering

Conferences / Conference Papers

DesignCon Also conference proceedings available.

Non-WWW References

Bradley Fawcett, "PCI Compliant =/ PCI Suitable", XCELL Third Quarter 1995, Xilinx, 1995.
"A PCI Bus Primer", XCELL Fourth Quarter 1994, Xilinx, 1994.

PCI Bus Resources - Measurements

VMEtro

FuturePlus Systems

Miscellaneous:

PCI - Efficient Use
There are a small set of rules that should be followed to insure an efficient PCI design. A study of leading commercial NICs shows that these rules are often not followed. Interesting article from Intel detailing this.
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/PC1001.HTM

PIC Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
The PICMG is a consortium of industrial computer product vendors who collaboratively develop specifications for PCI-based systems and boards for use in industrial and telecommunications computing applications.
http://www.picmg.com/gabout.htm

Standard Industrial PC Systems Group
SIP's promotes the national and international distribution and standardization of the Industrial PCI Bus. Supplies information about the technical status, application and further development of the Industrial PCI Bus.
http://www.sips.com

What's New With PCI
Download the invitation of the latest workshops available.
http://www.pcisig.com/calendar/webcal.pl

Last Updated pci.htm on 10/28/04