> > > > > slow AGP bus
> > > >
> > > > OGC will have an even slower bus.
> > >
> > > Depends on how many PCIe channels we design into it.  There will be at
> > > least one (about as fast as PCI-32 66MHz).
> >
> > So OGC is PCIe now?  Last I read it was going to be PCI.
> 
> The engineer who has been working on our PCB for us has expressed
> interest in doing a PCIe variant of the board.  A tentative plan has
> been proposed, and a PCI-PCIe bridge chip has been selected.

So the ASIC will be PCIe and the PCI board uses a PCI-PCIe bridge chip?

Doing it the other way around (ASIC talks PCI and the PCIe board uses bridge
chip) doesn't makes sense, as the PCIe board would still have the PCI
bottleneck.
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