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The Power of PCIBus Instumentation

Overview Even before the PCI bus was adopted as the de facto standard for video cards in computers, computer manufacturers had found many other uses for it: EIDE and SCSI controllers for faster disk accesses, Ethernet cards for faster LAN/WAN applications, ATM cards, Frame-grabbers, etc. While the PCI bus was not developed for the Instrument market, it has all the qualities required of such a bus: standard and stable bus specifications; fast throughput for data sharing between instruments; multi-master capability for instruments to take complete control of the bus, when needed; reliable operation proven by millions of machines around the world; powerful standard operating systems such as DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT; low cost software tools; reasonable platform cost, etc.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	TestMart	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, LAN - WAN Standards, Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), ATM, Interfaces / Buses / I/Os, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Windows 3.1 - 95 - 98 - Me

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