This Design Idea describes a VHDL implementation of a PCI 2.2-bus arbiter (Figure 1). Any PCI system may have one or more PCI-master devices. Most devices can behave as target hosts, but one must be a ...

Unlike box instruments, modular instruments connect directly to I/O buses such as PCIe. Thus, they don't use SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands the way ...

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

A Redditor who enjoys experimenting with old hardware and ancient operating systems recently tried a small but clever ...