PCI Express™ Architecture Training

Course Description

The PCI Express full-length course provides a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the PCI Express technology. The course covers all aspects of the specification from a hardware design prespective and also discusses the software requirements of PCI Express implementations. This course provides in-depth information, example implementations, and practical guidance that will give you a running start on your design.



Course Length - 4 Days

Who Should Attend?

This in-depth course is hardware oriented, but is designed for both hardware and software engineers. The course contains practical examples of transactions on the link and describes error conditions of which engineers should be aware. It also covers all the rules required for a device to be specification compliant. This makes the course ideal for a system validation engineer who is evaluating an RTL-level, chip-level, system-level or system board-level design.

Course Content

* Architectural Perspective
* PCI Express Overview
* Address Spaces and Transaction Routing
* Packet-Based Transactions
* ACK/NAK Protocol
* Quality of Service/Virtual Channels and Arbitration
* Link Flow Control
* Transaction Ordering
* Interrupt Handling
* Error Detection and Handling
* Physical Layer Logic
* Electrical Physical Layer
* System Reset
* Link Initialization & Link Training
* Power Management
* Power Budgeting and Slot Power
* Hot Plug
* Add-in Cards and Connectors
* Configuration Overview
* Configuration Mechanisms
* PCI Express Enumeration
* Configuration Registers (within 256 byte configuration space)
* Expansion ROMs
* Extended Space Configuration Registers (within 4KB config. space)

Recommended Prerequisites

A solid understanding of one or more bus protocols such as PCI architecture or similar architecture is required.

Corresponding Book

MindShare’s PCI Express System Architecture textbook (1st Edition)
Authors: Ravi Budruk, Don Anderson, and Tom Shanley
Publisher: Addison Wesley

Contact Gillaspy Assocates at 805-987-1959 to schedule an on-site class.




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