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Article: PCI express architecture supports a variety of applications and industries.(Technological Horizons)
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- ECN-Electronic Component News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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The PCI architecture has been one of the most successful chip and board interconnect technologies in history. Developed for personal computer applications, the PCI architecture is being used today in almost every computing platform. The initial PCI standard was introduced as a 32-bit wide bus clocked at 33 MHz which has evolved to a 64-bit wide bus operating at 266 MHz clock (PCI-X 2.0). Backward software compatibility was maintained while enhancements were made with higher clock speeds and wider bus widths, allowing designers to leverage a broad software base. However, PCI has now peaked due to its shared-bus interconnect architecture. At higher speeds, designing with PCI ...