IEEE HiRelPCI RE: More PCI Form Factors

[Lame Brooks-G14738 <brooks.lame@motorola.com>]

I thought this was dead since I never heard anything about the PCISIG
sanctioning the protocol extensions and the PICMG seems to have gone a
little different direction with Dual Host.  Anybody know?
-- BrooksL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Parker [mailto:Jon.Parker@trw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2000 16:59
> To: Brooks.Lame
> Subject: RE: More PCI Form Factors RE: Mini = Small ?
> 
> 
> FYI - Here's another one: HIRELPCI, which is a proposed IEEE standard.
> It is a bit larger than CompactPCI 6U and has redundant PCI busses.
> The spec is located here:
> http://www.scsi.com/Docs/P1996Draft0_65.pdf
> I am not sure what the current status is on this one but I 
> don't believe
> that it has been approved yet.
> 
> ------------------
> Jon Parker
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> Jon.Parker@TRW.com
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lame Brooks-G14738 [mailto:brooks.lame@Motorola.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 2:25 PM
> To: Mailing List Recipients
> Subject: 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
> 
>