Hello everyone
We are working on a product that MUST be connected to personal computers using a PCI slot. My custom logic has a generic low speedy bus that talks to the PCI bus through a PLX9052 PCI bridge. The main problem we have is that this single PLX chip costs as much as $14-18, about 50% of all component costs. Our first idea was to use a non-generic PCI chip, like realtek´s PCI/ethernet adaptor to construct the local bus but it would get cumbersome. My question is, does anybody know or have any sugestions about any cheap IC that is used as PCI to some local bus? Or even better, a PCI bridge IC really chip?
Thank you very much, Roberto Gallo.