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Re: [oc] PC-CARD/PCMCIA controller core



> Hi Shawn,
>
> Shawn Tan wrote:
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> > Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > | does anybody know about a PCMCIA/PC-CARD controller core ?
> >
> > I wonder if the PCI core could be used?? I'm not really sure about this
> > but aren't the standards similar?? Maybe you can start from there too..
>
> Yes, I thought about that, too. If I understood the PCMCIA stuff correctly,
> there are two standards meant, when talking about PCMCIA: PC-Card and
> Cardbus.
>
> PC-Card is not that complicated (and fast) as PCI. While Cardbus is very
> similar to PCI. At the moment I only need to support PC-Card.
>
> That means for the moment, it does not make sense to use the PCI core.
>
> Did anybody connect a PC-card (not a cardbus card) to a FPGA before ?
>

If I am not mistaken, PC-CARD - like CompactFLASH- supports an ATA interface; 
i.e. they can operate in a mode as were they ATA devices. In that case you 
can use the simplest OpenCores ATA controller (OCIDEC-1).

Richard

> Matthias
>
> > With Metta,
> > Shawn Tan.
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