At 07:17 AM 12/7/2006, Philip Covington wrote:
>I wonder if the PS3 supports PCI Express? I am working on a PCI >Express card for a work project that uses SFP fiber transceivers for >the card to card link. I am able to move about 210 - 240 MBytes/sec >over the single link. > >I am using a Altera Stratix II GX which is quite pricey (BGA with 1508 >balls!), but PLX makes some PCIe to local bus bridge chips that would >work for a PCIe to fiber connection between a PC/PS3 to Mercury board. > TI has a nice 1.5 Gbps serdes chip for the fiber transceivers. There are some other ones out there, too. A lot of the nicer parts actually include all the adaptive equalizers with reverse inband signalling and such needed to actually send multi-Gbps over copper. (I like the TI part because it's available in a flight qualified version, but that's just for my work peculiar needs) >Phil N8VB > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
