Design and Implementation of a PCI Controller for ATM Network Interface Card

• Main Authors: Wu, Shyh-Chyi, 吳世棋
• Other Authors: Chu Yuan-Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78308620322633923782

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電機工程學系 === 85 === The purpose of this thesis is to build a high speed ATM networkinterface card ( NIC ) for supporting the multimedia applications onthe PC platform. The PCI/ATM NIC combines the PCI bus high transferrate and the ATM high bandwidth. Three chips are designed andimplemented by ourselves in the PCI/ATM card. Two FPGA chips are forprocessing ATM/AAL5 functions. The other one is a PCI controller,which is as a bridge for the host CPU and the PCI/ATM NIC throughPCI bus. All of the three FPGA chips are implemented by Actel''s ACT284 pins FPGA chips. Because the design of PCI controller follows thespecification ( such as clock rate, bus protocol etc. ) of PCI bus,the PCI/ATM NIC can be plugged into the PCs without setting anyjumpers, such as I/O port address or IRQ number in the PCs. In thisthesis, we focus on the design and implementation of PCI/ATM card which includes an application specific controller.