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hi.
I would like to design a PCI card for desktok PCs andd I want to use a Xilinx FPGA to make PCI target interface. The FPGA works UP to 3.3V, but as I can see the PC motherboards have only 5V PCI slots. I dont want to use a PLX chip, only the FPGA.
How should I make it? with bus drivers? It would be hard to control the busdriver directions with a correct timing. the PCI-IF core doesnt support it, as I know.
are these motherboards work with 5V signaling, or only the connector is a 5V type?
there are 3.3V 5V and multi voltage PCI cards, but on the motherboards there are only 5V type slots. In some places they talk about multi voltage cards and (with 2 cuts in the PCI card edge) and 5V slots (with one cut and its not at the screwing side, so it means: 5V slot)
Added after 1 minutes:
on bus drivers I mean level translating bus drivers.
I would like to design a PCI card for desktok PCs andd I want to use a Xilinx FPGA to make PCI target interface. The FPGA works UP to 3.3V, but as I can see the PC motherboards have only 5V PCI slots. I dont want to use a PLX chip, only the FPGA.
How should I make it? with bus drivers? It would be hard to control the busdriver directions with a correct timing. the PCI-IF core doesnt support it, as I know.
are these motherboards work with 5V signaling, or only the connector is a 5V type?
there are 3.3V 5V and multi voltage PCI cards, but on the motherboards there are only 5V type slots. In some places they talk about multi voltage cards and (with 2 cuts in the PCI card edge) and 5V slots (with one cut and its not at the screwing side, so it means: 5V slot)
Added after 1 minutes:
on bus drivers I mean level translating bus drivers.