Making PCI Computer Cards

[umery2k75]

Instead of having Serial, Parallel, USB, IEEE1394 communication with PC. I really like to make Separate Card for the communication purpose. Long ago, I had seen the book related to PCI architecture in a book fair, but I didn't had much money to purchase it at that time and I even didn't paid much importance to it, to go back and buy it the next day.Now I really feel the need of information related to PCI Card.I had also bought another seperate cheap Pentium 3 computer, to do experiments on it, so even it got screwed up. I don't have to worry about it.
Please, tell me how to proceed.

 

[laktronics]

Hi,
If you manage to make one, you will appreciate the convenience of interfacing to the list of hardware ports you have mentioned in your first sentence. Do you know the secret of why the PCI connectors are lying blank in most of the PCs?, it is because, interfacing through PCI bus is not an easy task. The manufacurers have brought out practically the high speed CPU bus without termination on to the PCI bus so that you need specialised ICs to harness the high speed data and get it down to the level of ordinary peripherals. If you have a look at the specs. of these specialised ICs, you will realise the amount of work to be done to make a PCI interface card.

Once the card is made you need to make the software drivers to make your card start breathing.

Removal of slow speed interfaces like ISA bus from the PC mother board and software restrictions in direct port addressing have done a great damage to the interfacing technology and the PCs have moved out of being an engineer's tool to a black box device. If only PC manufacturers have brought out an ISA like interface on to an external connector, supported by MSCOMM like software drivers, more PC interfacing applications could have developed.

Regards,
Laktronics

 

[zape]

I have a different point of view. PCI is not such a big issue.

If you have a true interest I recommend you to start with a FPGA PCI development kit. Five years ago I developed some particular communications and video application based on a Xilinx Spartan Dev Kit. Cost? About $200 including the development SW, the PCI IP core, some design examples, etc.

 

[doaa_yehiagouda]

Hello,
Kindly advise about the following issue
I want to know the current cabability of the +5V pins of the PCI socket existed in the computer because i want to supply my designed board with the +5V from the PCI socket
BR