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Ravi Budruk is a senior staff engineer and instructor with MindShare, Inc., where he has trained hundreds of engineers. He is an industry expert on such topics as Intel Processor and PC architecture, as well as such bus architectures as PCI Express, PCI, PCI-X, HyperTransport, IEEE 1394, and ISA. Before working at MindShare, Mr. Budruk was a PC chipset architect and designer at VLSI Technology, Inc.
Don Anderson is the author of many MindShare books. He passes on his wealth of experience in digital electronics and computer design by training engineers, programmers, and technicians for MindShare.
Tom Shanley, president of MindShare, Inc., is one of the world's foremost authorities on computer system architecture. In the course of his career, he has trained thousands of engineers in hardware and software design.
MindShare, Inc. is one of the leading technical training companies in the hardware industry, providing innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Intel, IBM, and Compaq.
The MindShare Architecture Series
The MindShare Architecture book series currently includes the books listed below. The entire book series is published by Addison-Wesley.
The reader should keep in mind that MindShare's book series often details rapidly evolving technologies, as is the case with PCI Express. This being the case, it should be recognized that the book is a "snapshot" of the state of the technology at the time the book was completed. We make every attempt to produce our books on a timely basis, but the next revision of the specification is not introduced in time to make necessary changes. This PCI Express book complies with revision 1.0a of the PCI Express™ Base Specification released and trademarked by the PCI Special Interest Group. Several expansion card form-factor specifications are planned for PCI Express, but only the Electro-mechanical specification, revision 1.0 was released when this book was completed. However, the chapter covering the Card Electromechanical topic reviews several form-factors that were under development at the time of writing.
Intended AudienceThis book is intended for use by hardware and software design and support personnel. The tutorial approach taken may also make it useful to technical personnel not directly involved design, verification, and other support functions.
Prerequisite KnowledgeIt is recommended that the reader has a reasonable background in PC architecture, including experience or knowledge of an I/O bus and related protocol. Because PCI Express maintains several levels of compatibility with the original PCI design, critical background information regarding PCI has been incorporated into this book. However, the reader may find it beneficial to read the MindShare publication entitled PCI System Architecture, which focusses on and details the PCI architecture.
Topics and OrganizationTopics covered in this book and the flow of the book are as follows:
This section defines the typographical convention used throughout this book.
PCI Express™PCI Express™ is a trademark of the PCI SIG. This book takes the liberty of abbreviating PCI Express as "PCI-XP" primarily in illustration where limited space is an issue.
Hexadecimal NotationAll hex numbers are followed by a lower case "h." For example:
89F2BD02h
0111h
All binary numbers are followed by a lower case "b." For example:
1000 1001 1111 0010b
01b
Number without any suffix are decimal. When required for clarity, decimal numbers are followed by a lower case "d." Examples:
9
15
512d
This book represents bit with lower case "b" and bytes with an upper case "B." For example:
Megabits/second = Mb/s
Megabytes/second = MB/s
Groups bits are represented with the high-order bits first followed by the loworder bits and enclosed by brackets. For example:
7:0 = bits 0 through 7
Signals that are active low are followed by #, as in PERST# and WAKE#. Active high signals have no suffix, such as POWERGOOD.
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