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The purpose of this thesis is to build a high speed ATM
networkinterface card ( NIC ) for supporting the multimedia
applications onthe PC platform. The PCI/ATM NIC combines the PCI
bus high transferrate and the ATM high bandwidth. Three chips
are designed andimplemented by ourselves in the PCI/ATM card.
Two FPGA chips are forprocessing ATM/AAL5 functions. The other
one is a PCI controller,which is as a bridge for the host CPU
and the PCI/ATM NIC throughPCI bus. All of the three FPGA chips
are implemented by Actel''s ACT284 pins FPGA chips. Because the
design of PCI controller follows thespecification ( such as
clock rate, bus protocol etc. ) of PCI bus,the PCI/ATM NIC can
be plugged into the PCs without setting anyjumpers, such as I/O
port address or IRQ number in the PCs. In thisthesis, we focus
on the design and implementation of PCI/ATM card which includes
an application specific controller.
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