We've all heard the story. Parallel shared-bus architectures are showing their age, especially in communication designs pushing into the 2.5-Gbit/s range and beyond. As a result, designers are ...

Now nearing completion, the Advanced Switching (AS) specification brings switch-fabric speed and scalability to PCI. AS shares PCI Express Base's physical and data link layers, but new applications ...

After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...