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Article: PCI keeps on ridin' high: PCI, the wildly successful I/O interconnect bus that virtually all desktop PCs and many embedded systems use, continues to transform itself to stay atop the growing technology wave. (Design Feature).
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- EDN Europe
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION in the early 1990s, the PCI bus has grown to become the mainstay of the computer industry. PCI's popularity has given designers an array of low-cost silicon, which in turn has fueled additional growth. Generations of processors have come and gone, but the venerable PCI bus has remained on duty to tie the latest technology to legions of peripheral adapter boards.
However, this success has not come without substantial efforts from the design community to extend performance specifications and develop new applications for PCI.
PCI was born out of frustration with the then-dominant ISA bus. Intel and other industry leaders developed PCI ...