ASIC Prototype Board

A PCI board was designed to test a MPEG4 chip that was being designed by our customer. In addition to being a test platform it also served as the base for their permanent board offering in their reference design kit for their chip. The board consisted of the customer ASIC, a PLX PCI Bridge, power regulators and glue logic for IO functions. The PCB consisted of eight layers. A custom device driver was written to interface to the board as well as a diagnostic package to test the chip and the board.