Thinking about the convenience of running a custom design on a PCB and fitting it to the PCI slot on a PC, just for convenience of voltage, housing etc.
Are there any manufacturers that sell blanks with gold plated connectors? Is that the best way to do it?
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Are you going to use the PCI interface, or just steal power?
For now, just steal the power. But maybe put an i/f on later
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Just buy a cheap PCI card.strip off the junk chips. Bolt on your pcb and wire up power. That'as the prototype sorted.
A basic Google for "PCI prototype card" bought up stuff like this:
Cheap and easy to roll your own as well and get it custom manufactured.
Dave.
Onesies from makers like Vector are not cheap, but they do have a lot of holes and support traces (gnd, supply) - all of which makes them expensive. Maybe pre-plan a "basic" layout and have a number of boards made - then mask, etch and drill them for each particular use?
As others have suggested, there are development boards available. IIRC, some are completly blank. Some are *expensive* though. You'll have to buy one with the footprints you need, which may get quite expensive, or not.
You'll likely have to decide that up front. I've seen some with PCI->ISA bridges, which should make interfacing easier.
Well, this circuit is going to have to be redesigned for a number of apps, so that may not be too bad.
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Your favorite PCB design tool may have a symbol (and if it is good a stack of VHDL for the interface logic too) already setup.
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