2.9 Where can I find bus specs and interfacing information?
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This article is from the alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt Frequently Asked Questions. It is maintained by Mark Sokos (msokos1@gl.umbc.edu) with many contributions from others.
2.9 Where can I find bus specs and interfacing information?
The VMEbus FAQ is at http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/archive/vmefaq.html or http://www.oritools.com/info
The I2C FAQ is available from: ftp.uni.paderborn.de/elrad
Universal Serial Bus home page: http://www.teleport.com/~USB
ISA pinouts can be found at http://www.cistron.nl/~nctnico/index.htm
ISA, EISA, VLB, and PCI pinouts, signal descriptions, and timing information can be found at http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~msokos1
"AT Bus Design, IEEE P996 Compatible", by Edward Solari ISBN 0-929392-08-6
Official standard for the EISA bus are available from BCPR services (Texas) Tel: 1-713-251-4770
Standards for the EISA bus are available from Global Engineering Documents, Englewood, Colorado USA at phone: (800)854-7179, fax:(303)397-7935
The PC/104 Consortium has a page at http://www.controlled.com/pc104/ Request a resource guide and spec document.
The PCI specification may be obtained from: PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) P.O. Box 14070, Portland, OR 97214 (800) 433-5177 (503) 797-4207 FAX: 234-6762 (503) 797 4297 http://www.pcisig.com/
Other PCI information:
o http://www.teleport.com/~pc2/pcisigindex.html
o http://www.vchips.com/products/pcicores.htm
o http://www.altera.com/html/new/pressrel.old/pr_pcipack.html
o http://www.cypress.com/cypressprodgate/apps/ultralogic.html
o http://www.xilinx.com/apps/pci.htm
o ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/otherdocs/pc_systems/how_it_works
AMCC makes a chip which provides an interface to PCI on one side and a fairly simple generic interface on the other side. AMCC is in San Diego, California. Their telephone number is (619)450-9333. The part number for the PCI interface chip is S5933.
Ziatech, http://www.ziatech.com has the CompactPCI spec in Acrobat. CompactPCI uses the PCI timing and pinout with a eurocard format and connector.
D Prutchi, "Hot Swapping on the PC - An Active Extender Card for the 16-bit PC-ISA bus", Circuit Cellar Ink, Issue #62, 62-71, September 1995.
PCMCIA specs are available from http://www.pc-card.com/ (not free) The PCMCIA association lists manufacturers with links to webpages, also links to books.
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