As our own PCI controller matures, we're going to want to test it in situ. The trouble will be when it fails to work properly, and the solution will be to use some device to watch the PCI bus activity and let us observe them. Such "PCI bus analyzer" devices to exist, but they cost a fortune. Then it occurred to me that perhaps another OGD1 board would be ideal for this. It's got plenty of memory to store a large window of bus activity, and with the user I/O pins, we could rig up an RS232 port on it that we could use to communicate with the device. Moreover, it had occurred to me that we could make some money selling such a product. Of course, we couldn't sell it for the same amount as competing products (because it's open source... you can just buy and OGD1 board and download the FPGA code), but we could sell it pre-installed with support at a premium. The only thing about this that's a major drawback is that the market is waning rapidly as PCI Express takes over.
Thoughts? -- Timothy Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
