Hobbyist PCI design for linux

leosgb · 02-19-2010, 01:04 PM

Hi all,

I am trying to put together an educational project. The goal of the project is to get familiar with:
1) PCI board design
2) linux device driver design

I know this is a big project. I have the time to invest in this endeavor.

I am having a hard time gathering any information regarding PCI board design to start with. Everything seems to be designed using IP cores from a multitude of companies.

Is there any way to go around this gap? How can I get a hold of a "sample" PCI reference design that will not require licensing?

Thank you all for any information.

knudfl · 02-19-2010, 03:02 PM

Google .. pci board layout ..

http://www.pericom.com/pdf/applications/AN044.pdf

http://www.pcisig.com/developers/mai...d08b469f57e5f1
( pci express )

http://www.interfacebus.com/PCI_Card_Dimensions.html

http://pinouts.ru/Slots/PCI_pinout.shtml

Licencing : Probably none. The chip vendors will often provide
design examples to make it as easy as possible for the costumers
( EDIT : customers ) to use their components.
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catkin · 02-19-2010, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

The chip vendors will often provide
design examples to make it as easy as possible for the costumers
to use their components.

Theatrical electronics?!

knudfl · 02-20-2010, 05:51 AM

@ catkin : My understanding : a costumer is a person or
a company, who buys something ( from a vendor, etc.)

1) A modern dictionary : costumer ..
http://www.english-test.net/toeic/vo...efinitions.php
> client; buyer; person who buys a product or service

2) Webster 1972: costum´er: makes, sells, rents costumes.(Theatre).

3) The 'Oxford Advanced... 1994' : No word = "costumer".
But : costumier : makes, sells, rents costumes.(Theatre).
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4) .. word costumer origin ..
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-...d-a-client.htm
"".. the origin of the word "customer" dates back to the
Middle English of the 1400s and is related to the word
"customs" as ways of doing things.""
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EDIT ..
P.S. : Sorry for the typos costumer / customer.
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catkin · 02-20-2010, 06:34 AM

Hello knudfl

Sorry -- I thought "costumer" was a typo and enjoyed it so much I pointed it out for others to enjoy. Costumers are, in general, so far removed from electronics components that the imagined scene was amusing -- "Be a darling and pass the dress pins, would you? Oh, by the way the new MOSFETs came today".

AFAIK "costumer" only has the meaning of a person making or supplying costumes. I had hoped that "costumer" might be an alternative spelling of "customer" but could find no evidence for it. I searched both linked pages for costumer but did not find ... ?

They derive from unrelated roots: costume and custom. A "customer" was thus not someone who buys things but a regular, habitual patron of a shop or business; it's current meaning has changed.

The wonderful word "costermonger" (which sounds vaguely similar) has nothing to do with either "costume" or "custom" but derives from "costard", an old type of apple.

knudfl · 02-21-2010, 05:37 AM

Yes, you are right, I seem to have a couple of typos.
Getting too old .. No more proofreading ..

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