RE: PCI Compliance of PLX's PCI 9054 I/O buffers

[Brooks Lame <Brooks_Lame@mcg.mot.com>]

Somebody's playing the specsmanship game.  While it could be argued that the
PLX 9054 can be used in a 2.2 compliant universal signaling design, it is
certainly a more difficult argument to win.  I also point out that PLX and
other vendors should have been aware of this possible issue since it has
come up in discussion in this list several times over the past ~three years
or so.  
--
Brooks Lame'
Design Engineer,  Motorola Monterey Design Center
brooks_lame@mcg.mot.com,  blame@prolog.com
Standard Disclaimer: Editorial viewpoints are not necessarily those of
my employer.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Brisko [mailto:bbrisko@plxtech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 April, 1999 14:32
> To: Mailing List Recipients
> Subject: PCI Compliance of PLX's PCI 9054 I/O buffers 
> 
> 
> A recent posting to the PCI SIG reflector stated that PLX 
> Technology's PCI 
> 9054 I/O universal 3.3V/5V buffers were not compliant to the PCI 2.2 
> specification.
> 
> We want to make it clear that these buffers are compliant to the 
> specification. PLX designed these buffers to be reliable 
> under the worst
> case voltage transient conditions.
> 
> The PCI 9054 has passed all tests of the PCI Compliance 
> Workshop. The PCI 
> compliance checklist, which included a section on the I/O 
> buffer design, 
> has been submitted and recently approved by the PCI SIG 
> (special interest 
> group). Thus, the PCI 9054 is PCI 2.2 compliant and will be 
> listed on the 
> PCI Integrators list when it is updated in the near future.
> 
> If you have any questions on this subject, please feel free 
> to contact our 
> Technical Application Engineering Dept at 408-328-3531
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Hopwood 
> VP, World Wide Sales
> 408-328-3505 
>