PCI Express – An Overview of the PCI Express Standard- Developer Zone - National Instruments

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Overview

This paper looks at the success of the widely adopted PCI bus and describes a higher-performance next generation of I/O interconnect technology – PCI Express – that will serve as a standard local I/O bus for a wide variety of future computing platforms. The paper also offers a technical overview of the evolution of PC buses, the physical and software layers of PCI Express, the benefits of PCI Express, and the implications this exciting new technology will have on measurement and automation systems.

Table of Contents

1. Summary
2. PC History
3. PCI Bus History and Overview
4. PCI Challenges
5. PCI Express Architecture
6. PC Architecture – Today and Future
7. PCI Express Packaging
8. Benefits of PCI Express
9. Glossary
10. Further Reading