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More PCI Form Factors RE: Mini = Small ?



In my haste to get to other things, I forgot a couple other PCI form
factors.  So, here's an updated list of the PCI form factors I'm aware of: 

- Standard PCI:  similar to an ISA card, long and short spec, with mfgs
making cards of all dimensions in-between.
- PMC:  PCI Mezzanine Card, a PCI extension of IEEE Common Mezzanine Card
(CMC) family.
- PC-MIP:  another mezzanine card, smaller than PMC, ANSI/VITA-29 (should've
been MPMC).
- PC104+:  PC104 (~3.75"x3.5" stacking ISA form factor) with stacking PCI
bus (should be PC104+PCI).
- Small PCI:  ~same form factor as Cardbus and PCMCIA cards (should be PCI
Cardbus).
- Mini PCI:  a very small mezzanine card and DIMM style form factor (too
many 'types' in this spec, PC-MIP might be more popular).
- Low Profile PCI:  similar to the short card in Standard PCI, but smaller
(sounds like a mezzanine form factor; should be named something like Type C
Standard PCI card with the other two being named A and B [if ECR is
approved]).
- CompactPCI:  a eurocard formfactor implementation, PICMG.
- Passive Backplane PCI:  same as Standard PCI except motherboard resources
are also located on a plug-in card, PICMG.
- Passive Backplane PISA:  similar to passive backplane PCI except generally
for half-length cards because ISA and PCI signals are available on a single
card-edge connector instead of two, not sure if this spec is controlled by
some manufacturers' group.

Got any more?
--BrooksL