Patent ID: 8473663

Claim:
A stackable form-factor Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) device, comprising: a multiple-input switch adapted to be coupled to a PCI bus; a multiplexor coupled to said switch; a reconfigurable device coupled to one of said switch and said multiplexor; wherein when said reconfigurable device is configured as a PCI host controller generating clock signals time-skewed in correspondence with known locations on the PCI bus, said reconfigurable device provides said clock signals to said switch wherein said clock signals are driven onto the PCI bus; and wherein when said reconfigurable device is configured as at least one of a PCI master device and a PCI target device, said switch (i) receives said clock signals from the PCI bus at one of said known locations corresponding to said at least one of a PCI master device and a PCI target device, and (ii) provides said clock signals so-received to said multiplexor wherein one of said clock signals is selected by said multiplexor for presentation to said at least one of a PCI master device and a PCI target device.