PCI 90 8 0 RDK- 8 6 0
Reference Design Kits with PCI SDK for the PCI 9080
O v e r v i e w
Based on the powerful combination of the PLX PCI-9080 I2O
Compatible PCI Bus Master I/O Accelerator Chip and the
Motorola
®
PowerQUICC™ 860 processor, the PLX PCI
9080RDK-860 Reference Design Kit provides a complete
hardware and software development environment for the
engineer or project manager.
Developed for those who must master the complexities of
PCI and I2O™ design in today’s hectic world of time to market
schedules and rapid deadlines, the RDKs are fully PCI 2.1 compliant and provide
a complete PCI hardware and software development reference for telecommuni-
cations, internetworking or data communications design. With the PCI
9080RDK-860, PCI development and specification compliance risks are mini-
mized, allowing design engineers the peace of mind to concentrate on their
own core competencies.
To ensure your adapter card or embedded system design is simple and
painless, and done right the first time, each kit includes a set of software devel-
opment tools in the form of the PLX PCI SDK. The PCI SDK features a complete
set of tools for software programming including: PLXMon™97, a comprehensive
tool for PCI bus monitoring and debugging, extensive programming API
libraries for Windows
®
NT™ and Windows 95
®
device drivers, a firmware
debugging monitor with loader, and associated source code and user’s manuals.
PCI 9080 Bus Master I/O Accelerator
The PCI 9080 Bus Master I/O Accelerator interface chip available from PLX pro-
vides a compact, high performance PCI bus master interface for adapter boards
and embedded systems. The PCI 9080 contains an I2O messaging unit imple-
mented in its hardware that allows high performance and compatible software
implementations of the I2O bus protocol specification. In addition, the local bus
of the chip is programmable and can be configured to directly connect to a
wide variety of processors, controllers and memory subsystems.
F e a t u r e s
■PCI Version 2.1 compliant
boards based on the power-
ful PLX 9080 Bus Master I/O
Accelerator chip with I2O
messaging unit in hardware
■Motorola MPC860
■PLXMon97 provides a com-
prehensive tool for PCI bus
monitoring and debugging
■Flexible programming API
libraries, including source
code, for WindowsNT/95
and the local CPU are
included
■Sample Windows NT and
95 device drivers and source
code are included
■A firmware debugging
monitor with loader
■Comprehensive program-
mers reference manuals for
PLXMon97, PCI SDK and
a PCI 9080 data book
■Extensive technical support
available from PLX to ensure
simple and painless integra-
tion design
■Compatible with the PLX I2O
Manager and I2OSDK
available from PLX
Technology for complete I2O
development solutions
■Compatible with software
development tools
available from Motorola
and third parties