Re: What other interfaces are most similar to PCI?

["Alexander Bezrukov" <alb_@pisem.net>]

Hello Steven,

in my opinion, to the task you presented, the most significant is knowledge
of NT DDK and then PCI. All other busses (except for AGP) from a
programmer's point of view are very different from PCI but for a driver
writer it must not be a problem to learn in a short term all the necessary
to program a PCI device (provided he or she has the specification). This
is only true to the extent a driver for the working device is needed, not
the
cooperation with hardware people and writing of testing/debugging software.
In the latter case the understanding of PCI functioning on signal level is
a must.

Regards,
Alexander

PS: Btw, I currently am looking for a similar (preferably, not "3-months")
job too. It seems you have a plenty of candidates to choose from but might
it be interesting to you to add one more to your list? I would be glad if
you
consider me as well. I live in Germany but am willing to relocate if
necessary. If this is possible, could we get into further contact?


> I'm trying to hire a sw engineer to develop an NT driver and application
> for a CompactPCI-based data acquisition board. Some of my candidates
> have directly relevant experience with PCI and PCI-like busses (e.g.
> cPCI, CardBus, etc), but a lot do not have this.
>
> What other hardware interfaces are most similar in terms of the skills
> they would require from a software engineer? I don't want to falsely
> reject candidates just because their resumes don't have the magic "PCI"
> in them.
>
> Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Kan" <steven@kan.org>
To: "PCI Reflector" <pci-sig@znyx.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: What other interfaces are most similar to PCI?


> I'm trying to hire a sw engineer to develop an NT driver and application
> for a CompactPCI-based data acquisition board. Some of my candidates
> have directly relevant experience with PCI and PCI-like busses (e.g.
> cPCI, CardBus, etc), but a lot do not have this.
>
> What other hardware interfaces are most similar in terms of the skills
> they would require from a software engineer? I don't want to falsely
> reject candidates just because their resumes don't have the magic "PCI"
> in them.
>
> Thanks!
>
>