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Article: Tools offer a smooth ride on the PCI bus. (peripheral component interconnect; PCI-specific debugging tools)(includes sidebars) (Cover Story)
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- EDN
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- March 30, 1995
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PIONEERING DESIGNERS WITH THE PCI BUS EXPERIENCED HARDSHIPS BECAUSE THEY HAD TO CREATE THEIR DEBUGGING TOOLS. TODAY, A WIDE RANGE OF PCI-SPECIFIC TOOLS MAKES YOUR DEBUGGING JOB MUCH EASIER.
The computer industry has been waiting for a bus architecture that would provide a true open-system environment. The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus is that architecture and is opening doors for a plethora of new applications and design issues. Aside from its benefits, such as a 132-Mbyte/sec data-transfer rate, PCI allows CPU, platform, and operating-system independence. Because of this independence, every branch of the computer industry is embracing the PCI bus, ...