PCI development

Nov 09, 2003 5 Replies
M

Hi All,



I'm a hardware electronics designer, with a lot of experience in complex FPGA/CPLD design and some in programming in C (primarily embedded controllers). I'm now looking to do some PCI hardware development.



I would like some recommendations for a simple to use software environment for writing code for peeking and poking PCI registers and memory, and a simple C like environment for developing test software for custom PCI cards.



I would greatly appreciate any feedback from users, and any useful links. I'm using Win98 - so far I've found a freebee from Peritek

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I'm not a software programmer as such so the simpler the software environment is the better!



Thanks,



Mark.


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M

DOS with DJGPP works pretty well.

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DOS lets you get at all that hardware stuff that real OS's like linux, BSD, win2k, winXP prevent you from touching. DJGPP lets you write 32-bit code and execute it in a DOS environment.

Also, Intel has some kind of DOS-based PCI tool that is invaluable for peeking and poking at registers. I forget what it is called, but if search the web for it you'll probably find it. I think they may have released the binary into the public domain.

Mac

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Linux doesn't keep you out of this stuff, if you want to mess with it...

Look for a package called something like pcitools.

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M

Hmm. I thought hardware code was restricted to kernel space. But I guess someone must have come up with a user space way of doing it.

Thanks for the info.

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M

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I thought the full source is available for Linux, so theorectically I could modify or write custom drivers. Or am I wrong?

Mark.

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M

environment

cards.

links.

programmer

Thanks. I'm considering using lcc-win32 as this is a Windows environment compiler with a resource editor that is supposedly more suitable for someone learning to program PCs in C. I have a steep hill to climb I think!

Mark.

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