17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
4:47 p.m.
Another (cheaper) PCI prototyping board is available from Quancom:
www.Quancom.com
PCIPROTO - PCI Prototype Card with PCI Decoder chip
http://www.quancom.com/qprod01/eng/pb/pci_prototype_card.htm
No experience [yet] with it, just found it in our own internal
investigations.
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: Cheapest PCI prototyping?
>>>> "9000" == 9000 VAX <vax9000 at gmail.com> writes:
9000> On 11/16/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> Most of the PCI prototyping boards that
I've seen are either
> outrageously expensive or absolutely bare (i.e. no interface logic
> at all)--and still not that inexpensive.
>
> Does anyone know of a reasonable (<$100) PCI prototyping kit with
> a reasonable amount of interface logic built on?
9000> Altera MAX II kit? Last time I check it was $150 but you get a
9000> CPLD and other logic on board too.
If you don't want to mess with CPLDs or FPGAs, there's PLX, which
makes a variety of PCI to xxx interface chips. For modest
performance, there's PCI to ISA (alternatively, to a "generic" bus),
PIO mode only.
paul