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Software monitoring of the PCI bus
Fučík Otto, doc. Dr. Ing. (DCSY)
WDM, driver, PCI bus
This article deals with the problems in development and implementation of a bus monitoring software for operating systems Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP. The software should be capable of monitoring one or more devices connected to the PCI bus to gauge the bus throughput and to detect the number of the accesses, operating transferred mode used to the device access and bulk of the carried data. The PCI bus is susceptible to the distance from the conductor to the device. It means, that there is a problem of the parasitic capacities on the conductors and the corresponding data delay. That is why this information has been located by the specialized, and expansive logical analyzer unit, which allows watch the bus communication traffic. There are two main aspects influencing the throughput of a bus as follows: devices connected to the bus and optimization of the access to the bus performed by the device driver.
@inproceedings{BUT17113,
author="Pavel {Tupec} and Otto {Fučík}",
title="Software monitoring of the PCI bus",
booktitle="6th International Workshop on Electronics, Control, Measurment and Signals",
year="2004",
series="ECMS 2003",
pages="310--314",
publisher="Liberec University of Technology",
address="Liberec",
isbn="55-025-003"
}