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Features of the StackableUSBTM Interface: A New Specification for I/O Expansion in Embedded PCs
up to. has provided the foun-. a total of 16 periph-. dation for many of the. eral I/O cards, 8 on. popular embeddable. top and 8 on bot-. buses for I/O expansion,. tom, without the. including the USB, PCI,. use of a hub board. PCIe, and standard ISA buses. Two. The USB148 is an example
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Smart Computing Article - expanded memory manager (EMM) to extended memory specification (XMS)
computers today use the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus. Other examples of buses are the MCA (Micro-Channel Architecture), ISA (Industry Standard Architecture), and EISA (Extended ISA) buses. The final type of internal expansion includes internal drives. These are devices that generally
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The Future of PCIe in the Industrial Sector
standard was ISA, which was superseded by PCI and PCI-X. Although ISA, PCI, and PCI-X are still in use today, data throughput rates of computer components are now faster than the data transfer rates offered by PCI, which peaks at 133 MB/s. Even though PCI-X transfer rates range from 512 MB/s to 1 GB/s
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GPIB: Challenges and Potentials
the GPIB's achievement in hardware implementation for extension in various form factors including ISA, PCI, USB and LAN, and its software compatibility to advance VISA. The article then compares GPIB with newer instrument interface standards such as USB and LXI and explains the pros and cons of each
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EPIC: The New Mid-Size, Open-Standard for Embedded SBCs
that is available over a long period of time while at a competitive price from multiple vendors. Surveying the universe of single board computers shows that they come in many sizes - from as small as a postage stamp to as large as a pizza box. System designers are familiar with VME, PCI, ISA
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Why Ethernet Can Be Your Best Connection
faster speeds and greater throughput. PCI was intended to handle large amounts of data transferred by modern high-bandwidth applications such as audio and video peripherals. PCI is far superior to the bus architectures it replaces, such as ISA, EISA, and VESA because it moves the peripherals closer
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Power Issues in Edge Card Systems
The term 'edge card” has a wide variety of meanings in embedded computing. In this article an edge card system is either a system using a combination of PCI-X/PCI edge cards with either ISA or PCI Express cards. Industry standards are available that define among other things power specifications
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Tips for embedded real-time design
Real-time constraints change the way designers architect control tasks. The PC/104 standard defines a modular system architecture that uses 3.5-in. boards that snap together. The result is a stackthrough bus which uses ISA technology. The related PC/104+ standard uses PCI-format rather than ISA