Re: PCI compatible microcontroller

[Klaus Bahner <kgb@tcelectronic.dk>]

If about 60$ are still in your budget, have you looked at Moto's MPC8240. A 603e
PowerPC plus integrated PCI controller. Or you may have a look on PLX's IOP 480,
which is also a PowerPC (a IBM 405 core I think) with integrated  PCI controller.

"John L. Smith" wrote:

>     Uhhm, thanks. Someone handed me the $6.32 price. I just went
> looking myself, and think I got a slipped decimal point. $63
> seems much more like it. Mercifully, the board I'm doing has a _big_
> _expensive_ FPGA on it so this doesn't change costs much. It is
> still cheaper to use the i960VH for PCI control, DMA, and decent
> performance RISC, than to throw those fixed functions into the
> FPGA I'm using.
>
>    Like others on the list though, I've still got my eyes open
> for cheap PCI microcontrollers. Bummer that the Agilent website
> comes back with "Sorry, this product is no longer available
> in the product catalog" for the part that someone else suggested.
>
>   You'd think that someone would have a simple PCI uC solution
> under $10 ... you can get graphics chips for PCI, with far more
> silicon than a simple uC would need, for less. Why not an i960VH
> like device?
>
> ballred@phobos.com wrote:
> >
> > My distributor tells me that the Intel MSRP for the i960VH is about $60/1K.
> > Looks like you are getting quite a deal at $6.50
> >
> I wrote:
> >
> > I'm using the Intel i960VH. It's 32-bits and requires external
> > PROM, possibly also DRAM if you need large amount of RAM, but
> > connects nicely to PCI, has 32-bit local bus, IIC bus, plus
> > internal multiply/divide unit. Reasonably priced, ~$6.50 US.
> >
> > "Mukesh Kumar Mishra (96D07023)" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >     I am making a hardware emulation system. I want to control the
> > > emulation system through a PC. I wanted to know if I can get a
> > > microcontroller which can be interfaced to PCI slot of the PC i.e
> > > microcontroller should, by some means be able to interface into the PCI
> > > slot of my PC and the other ports of the microcontroller can be used to
> > > control the emulation sytem.
> > >     Please suggest me some company's microcontroller which I can use.
> > > Thanking You,
> > > Mukesh Mishra