PCI System Architecture (4th Edition)

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Summary: This book tells it all
Review: This book describes the PCI architecture plain and simply. It completely explains the PCI bus in such a way that I understood it all immediately and I still remember most of the important information and details a year after reading it.

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Summary: Not for Software
Review: This book is not for someone writing software

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Summary: Not for software
Review: This is a very hardware related book and not much use for someone writing software drivers.

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Summary: Great Introduction to the World of PCI
Review: When I opened this book, I had maintained a few PCI drivers, and done off and on hacking at PCI support code, but I didn't fully understand the semantics of PCI. Within a few dozen pages, I had attained infinitely more clue on PCI, and having not even _finished_ the book yet, I can confidently say it's a great great text on PCI, and makes sense of what usually looks like a house of cards with spaghetti strewn over it in code form.

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Summary: Very good book for Hardware Engineers
Review: You are a Hardware Engineer, and you want to learn about the PCI Bus, either for a Design or just to understand how the thing works, this book will take you from where you stand in your PCI knowledge to a very good understanding of the Architecture. You already know about PCI: This book will clarify most of the obscure points left. You don't know anything about PCI: This book will take you step by step to where you want to go.