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5V vs. 3.3V signaling



I have a  system that I need to design a adapter card for that uses 5V signaling but my adapter card PCI interface chip only supports 3.3V signaling. Someone suggested that I use a "translator" chip that takes 3.3V PCI signals and converts them to 5V and vice versa (of course with virtually zero delay) but I doubt anything like that exists. The other possibility, although brute force, is to use a PCI-PCI bridge which supports both signaling standards. Anybody ever confront this problem?
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Alex Horvath
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