US$49.95 (plus S&H)
224 pages, ISBN: 1-878707-54-X

This book is a practical guide to the PCI bus - the immensely popular bus standard found in every modern PC - aimed at hardware and software designers who need to understand the intricacies of its workings. The book covers PCI Local Bus Specification version 2.2 and other recent developments, including the new PCI Hot-Plug Specification, changes to the PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification, revisions to the PCI BusPower Management Interface Specification, and the new features of the PCI BIOS Specification. It provides clear and concise explanations of the relationship of PCI to the rest of the system and PCI fundamentals, including commands, read and write transfers, memory and I/O addressing, error handling, interrupts, and configuration transactions and registers. Anyone who designs or tests hardware or software involving the PCI bus will find this book a valuable resource for understanding and working with this crucial technology.

About the Author
Doug Abbott is an independent consultant specializing in hardware and software for industrial and scientific instrumentation and embedded product design. In this capacity he emphasizes creative approaches to design and structuring that minimize testing difficulties and enhance portability and understandability. He has worked on projects ranging from simple power supply monitors to video telephones and instrumentation systems for crash testing and engine analysis. He also conducts seminars on PC technology and embedded programming issues for University of California, Berkeley. A refugee from Silicon Valley, Doug is currently based in Silver City, NM.