On Monday 05 March 2007 11:26, Brian Padalino wrote: > I don't think you need anything PCI with the specified PLX chip. > > The PEX8311 has a description of: > > "8/16/32-bit, 66MHz, Local Bus to PCI Express Bridge"
Whoops you are right. Weird I haven't seen that before on their site, maybe I'm going blind :) > > As far as I am aware there are no PCIe equivalents to the PLX 9054 (for > > example) - ie PCIe to local bus bridges. > > I believe that is an equivalent, but still relatively expensive in > comparison to just a PHY chip. Yeah, but your average hobbyist can't afford $100k for a PCIe core ;) > > You might need some information about laying out your board for PCIe > > compliance however you can probably glean that information from a PLX > > example design :) > > Very true - they seem to have the board layout all right there from > their reference design development board. Pretty nice! Handy indeed :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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