PCI Bus Demystified

Doug Abbott is a consultant with over thirty years’ experience, specializing in hardware and software for industrial and scientific data acquisition and embedded product applications. Doug is also a popular instructor and seminar leader, who teaches classes in PC technology and real-time programming for University of California Berkeley Extension. He has taught the techniques of real-time programming and multi-tasking operating systems to hundreds of professional engineers.Doug Abbott is the principal of Intellimetrix, a consulting firm in Silver City, NM, specializing in hardware and software for industrial and scientific data acquisition and embedded product applications. Among his past and pre-sent clients are Agilent Technologies, Tektronix, Sandia National Laboratory and numerous smaller high-tech com-panies in Silicon Valley.Mr. Abbott has over thirty years experience in various aspects of computer hardware and software design and has been an independent consultant for the past fifteen years. Prior to founding Intellimetrix, he managed software de-velopment for DSP Technology, Inc, a leading supplier of high-speed instrumentation.Doug is also a popular instructor and seminar leader, who teaches classes in PC technology and real-time program-ming for University of California Berkeley Extension. He has taught the techniques of real-time programming and multi-tasking operating systems to hundreds of professional engineers. These classes can also be customized and made available for on-site presentation.Mr. Abbott received an MSEE degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

• INTRODUCING THE PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT (PCI) BUS bus taxonomy PCI signals signal groups signal types sideband signals definitionsARBITRATION the arbitration process bus parking; latencyBUS PROTOCOL PCI bus commands read/write transactions transaction termination error detection and reportingOPTIONAL AND ADVANCED FEATURES interrupt handling the interrupt acknowledge command 64-bit extensionsELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ISSUES signaling environments timing specifications 66 MHz PCI mechanical detailsPLUG AND PLAY CONFIGURATION configuration address space configuration header base address registers expansion ROMPCI BIOS operating modes BIOS services generate special cyclePCI BRIDGING bridge types configuration address types bus hierarchy and bus number registers address filtering prefetching and posting interrupt handling across a bridge palette snooping; resource lockingCOMPACT PCI mechanical implementation electrical implementation Compact PCI bridgingHOT PLUG AND HOT SWAP: PCI Hot Plug Hot Plug primitives Compact PCI Hot Swap primitives

"All aspects of PCI design and standards are examined, including hot-plug and hot-swap support, "plug and play" operation, and PCI BIOS support. Overall, the topics are presented well and useful for learning and reference purposes... enough technical detail to impress PCI interface designers and simple enough to enlighten engineers and programmers acquainted with the PCI bus from plugging in a few PCI adapters." --ELECTRONIC DESIGN"In addition to encompassing a wealth of knowledge, this book is full of helpful diagrams, charts, and illustrations that give the reader a visual reference along with the text. PCI Bus Demystified should not be overlooked" --CompactPCI Systems May/June 2004"PCI Bus Demystified is an excellent text that includes all aspects of PCI design and is written with focus on both hardware as well as software designers. The book is organized in a thorough introduction to PCI and PCI-X and is divided into two parts. First part is an introduction to the basic concepts of PCI and second part is related to PCI-X...This book is a useful introductory book for PCI and PCI-X...Most of the chapters include liberal amount of figures and tables that make the book easy to understand." --E-Streams, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 2005