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RE: Approaches for PCI Overvoltage design using 3.3volt technology



Homann says:
> On another subject; has anyone build a motherboard and added discrete diodes
> to the bus? As I understand it, they could  (in theory) be effective when
> you have the host-pci bridge in one end, and a lot of empty slots in the
> other. A couple (hundreds?) of BAV99 (probably faster needed) to reduce
> over/undershoot when unpopulated?

In CompactPCI, we use Texas 74S1053, Shottky diode arrays.
Works fine.
In CompactPCI there is even more of this problem, due to the fact that there
are 8 slots in the (passive) backplane.

Regards Lars Stjernestam, Omicron Ceti AB, Sweden.
rlylast@rly.abb.se
www.omicron.se
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