[Open-graphics] A really good immediate use for OGD1: PCI bus analyzer

[Timothy Miller]

On 1/1/07, André Pouliot <andre_pouliot at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> For the pci bus analyzer why try to get all the signal to show as a
> waveform?
>
> The card could just decode the stream of data on the pci bus and forward
> that to the user on the form of address + data in an ascii file. For
> some people it's a lot simpler if we provide that with some setting to
> capture on some address range.
>
> For debugging the pci bus at signal level it could be a future extension.
>

It's actually simpler to deal only with the raw signals.  Dealing with
data and address like you describe actually requires more logic and
more code.  But I think we need both modes.