| This
book is a practical guide to the PCI bus - the immensely popular bus
standard found in every modern
PC - aimed at hardware and software designers who need to understand the
intricacies of its workings. The
book covers PCI Local Bus Specification version 2.2 and other recent
developments, including the new PCI
Hot-Plug Specification, changes to the PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture
Specification, revisions to the PCI
BusPower Management Interface Specification, and the new features of the
PCI BIOS Specification. It
provides clear and concise explanations of the relationship of PCI to the
rest of the system and PCI
fundamentals, including commands, read and write transfers, memory and I/O
addressing, error handling,
interrupts, and configuration transactions and registers.
Anyone who designs or tests hardware or software involving the PCI bus
will find this book a valuable
resource for understanding and working with this crucial technology.
About the Author
Doug Abbott is an independent consultant specializing in hardware and
software for industrial and scientific
instrumentation and embedded product design. In this capacity he
emphasizes creative approaches to
design and structuring that minimize testing difficulties and enhance
portability and understandability. He
has worked on projects ranging from simple power supply monitors to video
telephones and instrumentation
systems for crash testing and engine analysis. He also conducts seminars
on PC technology and
embedded programming issues for University of California, Berkeley. A
refugee from Silicon Valley, Doug is
currently based in Silver City, NM. |
