CompactPCI Horizons: Year 2000 and Beyond
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), introduced by Intel in 1992, has successfully been adopted in many embedded applications besides desktop PCs. In the PC arena, PCI enables system designers to implement peripheral subsystems without worrying too much about frequent host processor upgrades. Other bus architectures like VESA couldn't provide this feature although, in terms of performance, they were competitive with PCI. In the embedded arena, many industrial and telecommunications applications demand efficient back-plane buses for data transfers. Although PCI was not initially intended to act like an industrial back-plane bus, it has successfully been utilized in many applications where traditionally other industrial bus protocols like ISA or VMEbus were dominant.
View Entire Paper | Previous Page | White Papers Search
If you found this page useful, bookmark and share it on:
Embedded Star Newsletter
Don't have time to visit Embedded Star everyday? Then sign up for our free newsletter. We'll send you an email when we have something to share with you. Your email address will be kept confidential and we will not share, sell, or rent it to anyone. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking a link in the email.
If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you can also sign up for our free blog feed. Our RSS feed is updated in real-time while our newsletter is updated daily.
