When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

PCI Express is an implementation of the PCI computer bus that uses existing PCI programming concepts and communications standards, based on a much faster serial communications system. In fact, PCI ...

As the I/O interconnect world has transitioned from PCI to PCI Express (PCIe), bridge ICs have filled a critical role: to allow designers to continue to use existing PCI and PCI-X endpoints in ...

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest ...

PCI Express is an interface standard developed by the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). Originally designed for desktop personal computers, it’s used across a range ...