Re: What's HRPCI ?

[Dave New <den@aisinc.com>]

David O'Shea wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know what HRPCI stands for?   Is it High Reliability?
> Could anyone clue me in.   Is is a subgroup of PCI, or an offshoot
> like Compact PCI ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David O'Shea
> daveo@corollary.com

My understanding is that it is an offshoot of Compact PCI (or son-of-a-son-of
PCI 8-).  I received a kind of requirements doc a while back.  Fascinating
reading.  It allows for all kinds of high-speed backplane communications
interconnects (FireWire, Ether, etc.) between chassis, and is meant for
*large* distributed embedded control networks like traffic light systems,
where everything is talking across buried fiber optic cable.  One of the
tricks is to extend the logical addressing space to beyond 32 bits, so that
all the 'remote' systems look like 'local' bridged PCI buses.

Also, the telephone industry is interested, for use in electronic switching.

"What hath PCI wrought?" -- to steal a phrase...

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Cheers,

DaveN

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