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Re: Running PCI cards at slow clock speeds
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- Subject: Re: Running PCI cards at slow clock speeds
- From: holeman@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Jim Holeman)
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 96 11:49:00 CDT
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John Providenza writes -
>My question is -
>Does anyone know of a PCI-PCI bridge that allows different clock rates on
>each of the PCI busses? For this emulation/test scheme, it would be great to
>run the main PCI bus at 33MHz and have a bridge to a secondary bus that runs
>at 1MHz or less. This allows the processor and major peripherals to run at
>high speed while the device being emulated runs at slow speed.
>Any ideas?
I heartily agree with John's request, and am interested to hear if there
are any suggestions. Such a capability would help us now and in future
emulation projects.
holeman
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