Appendix EDescriptions of Common Buses

This appendix contains information about common buses. Use this as a reference document as interfacing questions arise.

Much of the information is available online at http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~msokosl and is printed with permission. The authors would like to thank Mark Sokos for his cooperation in compiling a large portion of this appendix. The reader is encouraged to visit his sites.

The PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Bus

This section is not intended to be a thorough coverage of the PCI standard. It is for informational purposes only, and is intended to give designers and hobbyists an overview of the bus so that they might be able to design their own PCI cards. Thus, I/O operations are explained ...

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