Online PCI Express Training Oct 7-9, 2008

PCI Express is a next generation PCI enhancement, and is here to stay. Express is now a serial bus inter-connect I/O technology, along with associated speed, protocol, and capabilities enhancements well beyond PCI and PCI-X. Express is an extension of the PCI Base Specification and maintains binary backwards compatibility with previous versions of the PCI and PCI-X Specification.

Dashcourses four-day PCI Express course will cover the PCI-SIG‘s PCI Express Base Specification, including the up-coming version 2.0 changes/enhancements. Emphasized material will include the details of the new PCI Express protocol stack for Express devices, including, protocol layer functions and formats, transaction details, and configuration requirements. Also presented are the 2.0 changes including Trusted Configuration Environment, Trusted Configuration Access Method, Trusted Computing Group, and Trusted Platform Module or TCE, TCAM, TCG and TPM. Legacy and native PCI Express devices and power management, fabric topology, switching and the use of virtual channels, which provide the ability to allocate bandwidth and support isochronous applications, will be discussed.

Course Objectives

In this course you will:

• Learn about PCI Express fabric topology, the terms and definitions


• Understand the PCI Express protocol including layer definitions and layer relationships


• Traffic types defined by PCI Express and the meaning and usage of isochronous traffic


• The PCI Express definition of ‘virtual channels’ and PCI Express configuration


• Compatibility requirements with PCI and PCI-X, and PCI Express new enhanced features


• Understand the parallel/serial paradigm shift and PCI Express capabilities relative to other serial hardware/software architects


• Learn the Virtual Channel register set and how to program this register set to differentiate services (category of service/quality of service system capabilities)


• Serial protocol analyzer usage in design and debug, validation, and testing

Who Should Attend?

This 4-day PCI Express course is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the PCI Express technology as it relates to board, platform, and system design issues as well as to BIOS, device driver and application programmers, and test and de-bug issues. It is appropriate for design, debug, validation, and field engineers, and managers wanting a good understanding of the hardware/software capabilities and the disciplines required for successful introduction and support of PCI Express devices or systems.

Prerequisites

Participants should have attended the Dashcourses three-day PCI/PCI-X course or have a good working understanding of PCI 2.2 or later. Knowledge of the related PCI supporting specifications as defined by the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) is helpful but not required.

This course will be conducted using Dashcourses’ new Virtual Learning Environment classroom. We designed this industry-leading facility to provide you with a training environment that is not only economical, it is as effective and interactive as having a real live instructor standing right next to you.

Date/Time: Oct 7 – 9, 2008
Location: Your computer
More Information and to Register: http://www.dashcourses.com/public-courses.html