In case your laptop computer is older, it's common for them to have a PCM-CIA slot.
Mine is a Compaq Presario built in 2003. The modem card went in the PCM-CIA slot. I removed it to put in a wi-fi card.
I wanted to make the right purchase. I soon found there were several PCI card formats. I looked at my card and compared it with pictures and measurements I saw at websites. That's the way to be sure.
Does your laptop have a phone modem jack? If so then check whether it has a modem card somewhere inside.
There is no PCI SLOT physically available in your Laptop. You have to get a USB port compatible card.
You mean you want to develop a FPGA application that works as a peripheral on a PCIe slot? In that case I'd consider using an ordinary desktop with PCIe slots on the motherboard as dedicated development / test system. Not expensive, much easier to hang peripherals onto (and more room in the case). I doubt that a 2003 laptop would include any PCIe support (in the form of a slot, or otherwise).I am trying to connect an FPGA with my PC for designing purposes. I have a half PCIe x1 on my FPGA kit, and want to start working on it and designing some relevant logic. I dont have too much knowledge about PCI.
You mean you want to develop a FPGA application that works as a peripheral on a PCIe slot? In that case I'd consider using an ordinary desktop with PCIe slots on the motherboard as dedicated development / test system. Not expensive, much easier to hang peripherals onto (and more room in the case). I doubt that a 2003 laptop would include any PCIe support (in the form of a slot, or otherwise).
If you mean you want to connect FPGA to your PC in order to configure that FPGA (design logic in it), you probably want a JTAG programming cable. Can be made as do-it-yourself using the parallel port, or cheap clones of USB programming cables can be found on the 'net (eBay mostly).
By the way: PCI != PCIe
PCIe is using the PCI communication model, that means it uses bus addresses to access device resources. For this reason an USB or Ethernet port can't be easily bridged to PCIe. A 32-Bit Cardbus slot (PCMCIA) possibly could, but it would need a complex bridge controller. I'm not aware of an existing product. Please notice, that available PCMCIA to Expresscard adapters don't provide a PCIe lane.
So the obvious solution to connect the PCIe card is a small PC mainboard. If you want to test PCIe connectivity of your FPGA board or develop respective applications, you can hardly avoid it.
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