Introduction
Evaluation Board User’s Guide
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1.0
Introduction
This document describes the Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge (also called 41210 Bridge)
Evaluation Board.
2.0
Overview
The Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge evaluation board is a PCI-Express enabling tool
with PCI-X expansion slots that are used to evaluate the operation of the 41210 Bridge. The 41210
Bridge evaluation board can be used to perform the following functions:
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Develop initialization code to configure the 41210 Bridge and associated logic and devices on
the local PCI-X bus as a intelligent controller.
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Evaluate the operation of the 41210 Bridge with a variety of PCI/PCI-X devices configured in
an intelligent subsystem.
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Build and evaluate a system.
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Testing of the 41210 Bridge feature set.
3.0
Features
The 41210 Bridge evaluation board has the following features:
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Complies fully with:
— Protocol and electrical standards of the
PCI Local Bus Specification
, Revision 2.3
—
PCI-X Bridge Architecture
, Rev 1.0 B
—
PCI-Express Base Specification
, Rev 1.0A
— PCI-Express Card Electrical Mechanical Specification
— PCI-Express Bridge Specification.
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Includes a 41210 "transparent" PCI-X Enhanced PCI-to-PCI Bridge that provides bridging
between two processor domains.
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Includes a host PCI-Express interface that plugs into any x8 PCI-Express option card slot.
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Provides dual peer PCI-X 133 MHz slots on separate bus segments in addition to each having
a segregated PCI-X100/66 MHz slot
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Three MICTOR LA connectors for logic analyzer interfacing of each bus segment
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