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Article: Bridge chips help connect host and expansion buses to the PCI bus. (peripheral component interconnect)(includes related article)
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- EDN
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- February 2, 1995
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The PCI bus is filling the need for a high-performance local bus to accommodate the increasing bandwidths of new designs. Now, many vendors are offering bridge chips to help PCI get on and off the buses of various CPUs.
It is difficult to pick up a trade journal on computing design or embedded systems and not find a mention of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. PCI is rapidly becoming the local bus of choice for new computer designs, and its industrywide acceptance promises high-volume and low-cost PCI peripherals at the right performance levels. The driving force for this growth is the need for bridge chips, which connect various CPUs to the bus and ...