YES NOPE9 wrote:
> Are there any ICs or modules that will provide an easy bridge between [ e=
mbedded CPUs and/or FPGA based peripherals ] and ThunderBolt I/O from a lap=
top  ?
>  =20
Afaict most of the details on thunderbolt are still locked up behind=20
intel NDAs but since it's a multiplexed protocol carrying PCIe and=20
displayport i'd expect the device side chips to provide PCIe and=20
displayport. If you are lucky it may provider other slower easier to=20
work with interfaces as well.

The main aim of thunderbolt at least initially seems to be to allow a=20
single thin standard cable to connect a laptop to a docking station=20
(apple clearly doesn't like the massive connectors that PC laptops use=20
to connect to their propietry docking stations). Afaict USB3 and PCIe=20
1.0 x1 (as used in expresscard) are both too slow to support full HD at=20
60FPS and even if they were fast enough there would still be information=20
routing issues (afaict graphics chipsets are designed to push the=20
graphics out a dedicated port, not back into the systems general bus=20
infrastructure).
> gus in denver  99gus
>  =20

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