PCI:SBus Comparison

Preface

The PCI:SBus Comparison document describes feature differences between the PCI interconnect bus and the SBus interconnect bus. This document is intended to help developers who are in transition from developing for SBus to developing for PCI bus. In addition, this document is intended to help field engineers who are assisting these developers.

Related Documents

The following documentation contains the topics related to the information discussed in this PCI:SBus Comparison manual.

Table P-1 Related Documents

Subject 

Title 

Part Number 

 PCI PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1 802-2387-02
 PCI System Architecture, by Tom Shanley and Don Anderson, MindShare, Inc. 
  PCI--A Developer Overview, December, 1996 (technical brief) 
 Sun Microsystems(TM) PCI migration Web page: http://shasta.corp.sun.com/Rte66/ 
  PCI Developer Kit 
  IEEE 1275-1994 Standard for Boot Firmware 
 PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware, Rev 2..0 at:fhttp://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/bindings/pci 
 PCI and SBusSBus and PCI Bus: a Comparison (white paper) 
 SBus1496-1993 IEEE Standard for a Chip Module Interconnect Bus: SBus, IEEE Computer Society SH16659-NYF
  1275.2-1994 IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware:Bus Supplement for IEEE 1496 SH94236-NYF
 SBus Specification B.0, by Edward H. Frank and Jim Lyle, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,December, 1990 800-5922-10
  SBus:Information, Applications, and Experience, James D. Lyle, Springer-Verlag 
 SBus Handbook, by Susan A. Mason, SunSoft Press/Prentice-Hall 

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