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Is there any reference or material on design a pci express switch? Would it be complicated? How long it takes to design it(estimation)? What is the practise in the industry normally? to use a asic chip or implement in fpga?
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Use an external ASIC. PLX Technologies makes very good PCI and PCIe devices.
http://www.plxtech.com/ Cheers,
Dave
