On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:59:41 -0800 (PST), Vijay Kumar Avadhanula wrote: > I need some help from anyone who must have had some >experience in this area, like what are the things >important in designing/ considering the mother board,
The single most important factor for designing motherboards is bus speed. How fast are you gonna run that puppy? That dictates a whole buch of issues on how anal you have to be when routing things and the level of calculations you have to do on selecting your buss termination and what not. Fex our last custom board runs fine with a fsb of 66Mhz but has intermittent failures at 100Mhz. Really difficult to track down as well. >and what are the issues related to bios and then in >turn Linux. We would like to have some PCI based >contollers on the board. I will be thankful for some Ugh.. Are you going to have to brew up your own PCI implementation as well? I hope not. If so be prepared for a messy project. Of course if you can desing a processor and make it work then I guess your qualified to implement the PCI bus. -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777 x204 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
