Preface

The PCI:SBus Comparison document describes feature differences between the PCI interconnect bus and the SBus interconnect bus. This document is intended to help developers who are in transition from developing for SBus to developing for PCI bus. In addition, this document is intended to help field engineers who are assisting these developers.

Related Documents

The following documentation contains the topics related to the information discussed in this PCI:SBus Comparison manual.

Table P-1 Related Documents

Subject	Title	Part Number
PCI	PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1	802-2387-02
	PCI System Architecture, by Tom Shanley and Don Anderson, MindShare, Inc.
	PCI--A Developer Overview, December, 1996 (technical brief)
	Sun Microsystems(TM) PCI migration Web page: http://shasta.corp.sun.com/Rte66/
	PCI Developer Kit
	IEEE 1275-1994 Standard for Boot Firmware
	PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware, Rev 2..0 at:fhttp://playground.sun.com/pub/1275/bindings/pci
PCI and SBus	SBus and PCI Bus: a Comparison (white paper)
SBus	1496-1993 IEEE Standard for a Chip Module Interconnect Bus: SBus, IEEE Computer Society	SH16659-NYF
	1275.2-1994 IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware:Bus Supplement for IEEE 1496	SH94236-NYF
	SBus Specification B.0, by Edward H. Frank and Jim Lyle, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,December, 1990	800-5922-10
	SBus:Information, Applications, and Experience, James D. Lyle, Springer-Verlag
	SBus Handbook, by Susan A. Mason, SunSoft Press/Prentice-Hall

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