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I recommend it for anyone who grew up in the 40's and 50's.......1998-06-16
I grew up liking Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. I found Western Stars I had not heard of or had not heard of in years in this delightful and useful book. The Cd takes us from Back in the Saddle to Happy Trails, framing the lesser knowns with Gene and Roy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have
Like riding a Golden Palamino back to Yesterdays Saturdays........1998-06-05
Author Phillips certainly knows his subject. His material is well researched. No studio hype here. The photos are so crisp and clear, they seem to jump off the page and sit in your lap. For those who grew up during the 30's, 40's and 50's this book is like stepping back to those days. For everyone else, you can see and hear, what you missed. America still needs these kind of heroes. The biographical information on the 25 western stars is brief and accurate. Excellent reference book.
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PCI Express System Architecture.......2007-10-02
The book is well organized. The illustrative examples are very helpful. The contents of the book follow the specification very well but much better organized.
well written and complete but a little dated.......2007-09-08
this book was written before the pci express standard was ratified so much of the information is speculative. nevertheless, it is well written and complete.
Perfect reference for PCIe newbie.......2007-07-19
I have 2 PCEe books and this one is the best one. I don't have any experience on PCI and PCI-X. This books really have a lot of basic stuff which is very good for PCIe beginners.
comprehensive.......2007-04-03
It's huge, and slow going, but the book is quite detailed and generally clear explaining the concepts.
Best quality.......2007-03-13
I have got a brand new book for price of a used book. Without any damage, with very good binding it's a satisfactory purchase.
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Great for filling in the gaps!!!!!.......2005-02-16
I have recently had to undertake a PCI project that required detailed information on PCI configuration of devices, including P2P bridges. I have a couple of other resources, however, this book bridges the gap between software and hardware. Especially the chapters on configuration (Chaps 17, 18 and 19). I highly recommend it!!!!
Not for Software Developers.......2003-06-08
Basically, this book is very similar to the PCI SIG specification in many respects (without the hefty PCI SIG membership fee).
I was surprised to find that Hot-Plug PCI is given some treatment, but as with most of the material it was generalized and skewed towards the hardware design audience.
This book does do a good job of laying out the registers and explaining them. After I finished reading this book, I was able to do what I need to do, but didn't have a great idea of how the whole system worked.
There are plenty of timing diagrams and lots of good information, but most of it useless for a software developer. For example, the entire chapter of Hot-Plug PCI was well written, but it described what needed to be done to the various control lines-- something that would be implemented by the Hotplug PCI chipset controller. As a result, it is nice to know, but ultimately, useless.
Simply stated, if you are looking for a book to help write a device driver for a PCI-based device, this isn't it. On the other hand, if you are software developer looking for a primer on PCI, I would still look elsewhere.
Not too different from the PCI Spec from PCI-SIG.......2003-05-27
Hi,
Bought this book under the assumption that the coverage would be better than the PCI Specification from PCI-SIG, but the book is pretty much an exact copy of the specification document. If you can get your hands on the original PCI spec., you will be better off. The only saving grace for this book was that it covered all the stuff from the spec., so if you don't have access to the spec., the book does an ok job covering the whole PCI area.
Software engineer.......2002-06-07
I agree with other reviewers that said the book is not very helpful if you are writing a PCI device driver. It's full of register definitions and timing diagrams but I never got a feel for how to put it all together. This book may be useful for hardware designers but it is largely worthless for software engineers. If you're writing a driver and you want more info, don't waste your money here.
Great Introduction to the World of PCI.......2001-12-14
When I opened this book, I had maintained a few PCI drivers, and done off and on hacking at PCI support code, but I didn't fully understand the semantics of PCI. Within a few dozen pages, I had attained infinitely more clue on PCI, and having not even _finished_ the book yet, I can confidently say it's a great great text on PCI, and makes sense of what usually looks like a house of cards with spaghetti strewn over it in code form.
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good reference..........2001-10-19
the book is a great reference guide for pci-x
(a relatively new standard).
everything about this computer architecture is explained in details.the only limit is the purpose of this book, that remain in the bounds of a reference guide and not a programming & architecture guide.
the differences between pci and pci-x are clearly explained.
if you don't know anything about standard pci architecture and assembly programming,this book is not for you; but
if you are a system designer interested in pci-x, this book is a must.
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- Valuable for programmers.
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Programmer's Guide to the Amibios: Includes Descriptions of Pci, Apm, and Socket Services Bios Functions
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Valuable for programmers........2007-06-15
This nice hardcover official guide from American Megatrends is a must for someone learning very low-level programming or anyone who needs to configure and older computer, like a 286 or 386. Though it's somewhat out-dated, the basics are still the same. 15 chapters include BIOS Software Interrupts, CMOS RAM Map, EISA Overview, Error Messages, etc. & so forth.
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This digital document is an article from Federal Computer Market Report, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on July 29, 2002. The length of the article is 507 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: PLX switched-PCI architecture enables speed, expandability in new MAGMA PCI expansion system.
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Federal Computer Market Report (Newsletter)
Date: July 29, 2002
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 26
Issue: 14
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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on July 29, 2002. The length of the article is 507 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: PLX switched-PCI architecture Enables speed, expandability in new MAGMA PCI expansion system.
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EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 29, 2002
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 43
Issue: 29
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This is the only book currently available that includes all of the information from XE "PCI Express:specifications" /r "pciexpressspecifications" PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1 and PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.1. Any design and software will be incomplete and possibly incorrect if not compliant to revision 1.1 of this specification. The 1st ed of this book was The Complete PCI Express Ref published by Intel press. For the specifications this resulted in revision 1.1 and for the Intel press book this resulted in this totally revamped second edition. Included is a complete tutorial of PCI Express basics on CD-ROM. All other books are simply incomplete or outdated. There are two secondary specifications related PCI Express: PCI Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge Specification Revision 1.0 and PCI Express Mini Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.1. These specifications in conjunction with the PCI Local Bus Specification 3.0, PCI BIOS Specification Revision 2.1, and the aforementioned PCI Express specifications represent all the design information required for basic PCI Express design. The PCI Local Bus Specification 3.0 provides information about hardware components that are the basis for a lot of the PCI Express hardware design. To maintain software compatibility with PCI, the software model for PCI Express is modeled after PCI. Consequently, the PCI BIOS Specification Revision 2.1 in conjunction with the PCI Local Bus Specification provides all the information for software development on a PCI Express platform. This 2nd ed is over 1120 pages and provides the only comprehensive and detailed info available beyond the specs. In the CD-ROM there are 192 additional pages of associated PCI Express information. In addition, the CD-ROM contains tutorials to assist in quickly learning the basics of PCI Express.
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Focus on protocols.......2006-11-14
The binding is very poor, plastic type. It is difficult to open and to turn the pages. Some chapters are on print and some are on CD-ROM. It would be much better if the entire book was on CD-ROM. Also page numbers on paper and PDF overlaps.
The book almost exclusively deals with PCI Express protocols and signalling. The chapter on physical and electrical characteristics is very brief and does not mention ExpressCard. The description of PCI Express Mini Card is not up to date. This book does not replace the need to aquire the official ExpressCard standard documents.
Great content with pool print quality.......2005-07-01
The content of this book is excellent ! I had read the PCIE specification 1.0A before. But do not have clear view of the specification. It is a pain to read the specification directly, and make me fall into sleep quickly.
This book gives detailed explain to each important concept of PCI Express. And the author gives definition of each term in this book. More important, this book is not another "specification copier". The author do introduce PCI express concept in human language. Now I could understand the PCI express architecture and internal operation. For me, it is worth to spend US$90 for this book (contain the delivery cost.).
I give 4 stars, because I do not like its print and construction quaility. As previous review stated, the book size is a little too small. And I hope the construction would be a little better. I think I will have to refer this book many times, and hope it could stay as "one" book longer. I would expect the print quaility as the same as the "Windows internals 4th ed.". I never have to concern the "Windows Internal 4th ed." damaged while I read. But when read the PCI Express Design & System, I do worry it. If it is cost conecern, I would like to pay more US$10-20 to get better print edition.
If you looking for a book to understand PCI express, buy it. You might complain the print quality as me. But knowledge is more important than the print quality. And it will save you much time to dig into the PCIE specification.
DO NOT BUY!!!!!!.......2005-05-10
Okay this stupid book is cheaply made. The text is small, the diagrams are poorly drawn, and the most important is that the binding is incredibly cheap. As soon as i opened the book the binding cracked and the first pages started to fall out.
Since i am a designer and need a reference book, this one will be worthless since it will fall apart and not last. Buy the Mindshare book.
I want a refund....
PCI EXPRESS Design and System Architecture.......2005-03-16
I used the earlier books on PCI Express based on the earlier revisions of the specification {1.0a}. I am surprised how much better this book is than any of the other books, beyond just the updates for revision 1.1 of the specification. The other books seem to just restate the same basic explanation of the specifications and use the same figures found in the specification. This book is the only one I have found that provides more detailed diagrams that are not in the specification.
I that I was new to PCI Express I first used the tutorials on the CR-ROM. These were very helpful in getting me up to speed and provided the proper focus for reading the book.
I have been using the layer processing diagrams that permitted me to trace step by step how to process each packet type. It is something that the specification did not provide in any reasonable fashion. I was also very impressed by the summary tables and discussion of the addressing and routing within the PCI Express system. It is clear the authors spent time understanding the specification and then wrote this book from scratch with an engineer's point of view. The book's authors also took the time to create figures and tables that should have been in the specification. For some reason the specification writers did not take the time to provide good clear figures and tables.
This book is tailored to the hardware IC designer, system (hardware and software) architect, and software driver writer. For mechanical board layout and packaging engineer it refers back to the specification.
PCI Express Design & System Architecture.......2005-03-08
Reading the specification I could not understand the flow control credit design. I got this book and it had an excellent discussion on flow control credits that is just not available in the specification. The book is a lot more of course, here are some highlights.
The book is organized so previous PCI Express knowledge is not needed and PCI Express knowledge is build for the reader chapter by chapter. The first part of the book reviews the basic differences between PCI and PCI Express, and provides concise figures showing possible platform architectures. These are important topics the specification never clearly discusses. The first part of the book also provides great discussions of the addressing and routing protocols used by PCI Express. Again the specification's discussion of these topics is scattered all over the specification, not nicely summarized as done in the book. The next few chapters cover in detail the format of the different packets used by the different PCI Express hardware layers. The detail of these chapters allows me to know the definition and values of the fields of the packets for the different types of transactions. The specification is very hard to follow the text about packets
The next chapter is for layer processing and errors. This is a strong chapter for the book and reflects the greatest weakness for specification. The specification does not provide a comprehensive and clear discussion on processing the different types of packets. Also, the specification scatters the error conditions all over the place. The book is excellent in providing complete flow charts to process both correct and incorrect (error) packets.
There are several chapters on flow control. As I mentioned above the flow control credit section was excellent. The rest of these chapters covers all aspects of flow control that comprehensively integrates all of the concepts. There are also chapters on power management, hot plug, and of particular note link states. The specification does a very poor job on the link states. The book does a more traditional and excellent job with flow charts and next state tables. In fact the next state tables are so extensive, it appears they were placed in the CD-ROM to prevent book from being another 100 print pages.
The last part of the book provides a detailed discussion about the software requirements. I am not a software person so I can only judge that it seems to be a complete discussion. Finally, there is also a tutorial in the CDROM. I lent the CDROM to another engineer who told me it was a great tutorial to get up to speed quickly on PCI Express. Thus, for all of the above I would strongly recommend this book.
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