SCI Transaction Management in our FPGA–based PCI–SCI Bridge
Mario Trams, Wolfgang Rehm · 2001
Our VIA-capable PCI-SCI bridge was already introduced to the community in several papers (e.g. [3], [4]). While in these publications the focus were set at the advantages of the integration of VIA characteristics into an SCI architecture and the positive impact on message passing libraries, this paper is intended to provide the reader with a couple of implementation details. Functionality and cooperation of many of the hardware components are described and deepened by tracing a remote write operation throughout the whole system from PCI bus to PCI bus. This trace also discloses the composition of the latency.