Inside PC Card: CardBus and PCMCIA Design (eBook)

Front Cover 1
INSIDE PC CARD: CardBus and PCMCIA Design 4
Copyright Page 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
PREFACE 14
CHAPTER 1. PCMCIA OVERVIEW 18
1.1 Introduction 18
1.2 PCMCIA Background 18
1.3 PC Card Technology 19
1.4 Applications 19
1.5 PCMCIA Products 20
1.6 Types of Cards 20
1.7 PC Card Standard 20
1.8 PC Card Interface Bus 22
1.9 PC Card Design Issues 23
1.10 Scope of this Book 25
1.11 Key Terms 26
CHAPTER 2. PC CARD: THE 16-BIT BUS 28
2.1 Overview 28
2.2 What Is a Bus? 28
2.3 16-bit PC Card: An Overview 31
2.4 16-bit PC Card Address Spaces 32
2.5 Word or Byte Alignment in 16-bit PC Card 34
2.6 Bus Signals 35
2.7 Transfer Protocols 48
2.8 Electrical Characteristics of 16-bit PC Card 53
2.9 Summary 55
CHAPTER 3. CARDBUS: THE 32-BIT BUS 56
3.1 Overview 56
3.2 Pin Assignment Table 58
3.3 CardBus Pin Summary 58
3.4 Cardbus Host Implementation Overview 64
3.5 Cardbus Differences from PC Card 65
3.6 Differences Between CardBus and PCI 68
3.7 Address Spaces 68
3.8 Command Definitions 71
3.9 CardBus Transfer Protocols 72
3.10 CardBus Read Cycle 73
3.11 CardBus Bus Master Support 76
3.12 Terminating a Cycle in Cardbus 76
3.13 Interrupts 79
3.14 Clock Management 80
3.15 Error Detection 81
3.16 Summary 82
CHAPTER 4. INSERTION AND CONFIGURATION ISSUES 84
4.1 Overview 84
4.2 Insertion Issues 85
4.3 Card Insertion Interface 87
4.4 Configuration 90
4.5 KeyTuples 95
4.6 Supporting Multiple Tuple Chains 109
4.7 Interpreting Tuples 111
4.8 CIS Structure 113
4.9 Sample CIS Parsing Routines 114
4.10 Configuring 16-bit PC Card 118
4.11 Configuring CardBus Cards 122
4.12 Summary 131
CHAPTER 5. MULTIFUNCTION CARDS 132
5.1 Overview 132
5.2 16-bit Multifunction PC Cards 133
5.3 Cardbus Multifunction PC Cards 143
CHAPTER 6. PCMCIA SOFTWARE: AN OVERVIEW 150
6.1 Overview 150
6.2 Socket Services: An Overview 153
6.3 Card Services: An Overview 159
CHAPTER 7. PC CARD: THE MECHANICAL ISSUES 174
7.1 Overview 174
7.2 PC Card Dimensions 174
7.3 Host Connector 175
7.4 PC Card Connector 177
7.5 PC Card Frames 177
7.6 PC Card Input-Output Connectors 178
7.7 Height Analysis 178
CHAPTER 8. PC CARD HOST DESIGN 182
8.1 Overview 182
8.2 Basic Bridge Architecture 182
8.3 Basic Design Issues for a PC Card Bridge 185
8.4 Types of PC Card Hosts 185
8.5 16-bit PC Card Host Interface 187
8.6 CardBus Host Interface 201
8.7 Embedded Systems Host Interface 212
CHAPTER 9. DESIGNING PCMCIA CARDS 216
9.1 Overview 216
9.2 16-bit PC Card Design 217
9.3 16-bit Input-Output Card Design Example: Fax/Modem 229
9.4 16-bit Memory Card Design Example 237
9.5 Cardbus PC Card Design 242
9.6 Cardbus Master Card Design Example: LAN Card 249
9.7 Test and Debug of PC Cards 261
9.8 Summary 265
INDEX 266