PCI

axalay schrieb:

Hi,

actually I have no PCI spec at hand. However 11 PCI loads seems to be far more than I have used, even in Compact PCI Setups ...

Cheers

axalay a écrit :

Hi The PCI rule of thumb is "no more than 10 loads on a single bus", a PCI connector counting for 1 load (thus a card in a slot counts for 2 loads) You may need to add PCI-PCI bridges to split your bus.

Nicolas

Not quite 11 buy we have something like 6 way arrays of our products. Basically the maximum a standard motherboard we have does.

If you are doing a custom system essentially based on PCI then there is a good chance that it will work providing either the bus segments on your motherboard are not too long or you can slow the clock rate down a little. Propagation time and keeping it down is the key. If these are your own cards you should have a good idea of your I/O timing and what margin you have to play with. Otherwise if your are using cards by outside vendors then there is a possability not meeting timing if they are relatively slow. There are also lots of things either not covered very well by the PCI spec or simply things people have chosen to ignore so be slightly beware. The words compatible and compliant come to mind.

The usual problem comes if your cards want to be bus initator capable and you need support for the grant and request lines. If you case sounds like you are just using them as slaves so that should not be an issue.

John Adair Enterpo> May I connect 11 PCI cards (in each I use Xilinx FPGA) in one PCI bus,