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02/11/05 11:16
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#87130 - another idea
Responding to: ???'s previous message
i thought of letting the pc drive the screen scan, a controller costs around 280$-300$ , so i started looking for a way to get a straight IO from a PC(specificly - output is all i need) at around 3-6MB a second.
i thought of interfacing the PCI slots. developing a pci board and pci-controlling chip is expensive soi though of connecting the address bits of the pci slot to the 8-bits of the lcd screen , windows driver will "write" or try to access an "address" in the card , while this will trigger the pci-addr pins that will actually connected to the data of the lcd and trigger the pixels accordingly.
the first problem of that is , for each "request packet" that the bridge asking a card for , the card need to reply with some kind of "ack" bit(it has a timeout , but relaying on timeout will result in extreamly low data-rate). i figured this can be solved with some passive logic that will wait some ns duration(according to pci-spec) and trigger the ACK bit from the slot's power source.
the truely problem is card-identification and registration. this cant be achieved without implementing a lot of PCI's standard , even if i take a 8051 that will controll the meta-data negotiation (pci is async , you need to listen to see if the bridge is talking to you or some card near you).

so pci idea is kind of rejected.

parallel can give that , but parallel(LPT) overkills the CPU and rest of the media application will be hanged (like when you are printing with an LPT printer).

david.

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cstn screen challenge            01/01/70 00:00      
   another idea            01/01/70 00:00      
      pci            01/01/70 00:00      
   thinking...            01/01/70 00:00      
   Code library            01/01/70 00:00      
      comments and project specs            01/01/70 00:00      
         what you really really want            01/01/70 00:00      
            mini-itx            01/01/70 00:00      
               Looks good            01/01/70 00:00      
                  and NOW            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Instant on?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        yes- they come with compact-flash socket            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Pardon ?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              i already have 8 LCDs            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Instant-on            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Oh Yes            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 SD            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Graphical apps            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 about linux graphical app            01/01/70 00:00      
                              theoreticly not, but in reality...            01/01/70 00:00      
   Browse the code library            01/01/70 00:00      
   your pci idea            01/01/70 00:00      

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