What do you need to know about physical-layer compliance measurements under the PCI Express 1.1 specification? Significant changes in jitter and phase-locked loop (PLL) bandwidth were instituted with ...

A compliance testing software package available for free download from the PCI-SIG committee is an excellent, simple tool for preliminary demonstration of a product's compliance to PCI Express 1.1 ...

Moore’s Law might be slowing down CPU compute capacity increases in recent years, but the innovation has been coming at a steady drumbeat for the interconnects used inside servers and between nodes in ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

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 ...

I've got an old desktop that I'm keeping alive to act as a fileserver. I've always just used the integrated video (VGA-only), which has always been good enough, since I'm not running anything 3D.

PCI Express is replacing PCI-X in high-performance systems, increasing the need for flexible PCI Express switching. PLX Technology's PEX 8548, a 48-port PCI Express switch, can handle a range of ...

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 ...

Synopsys is the first IP provider to offer new “off” and “snooze” power states (L1 sub-states) in PCI Express® controller IP Ten customer designs have integrated Synopsys' new PCI Express IP with L1 ...

I'm using a Radeon HD 3870 (PCI Express 2.0) in an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (PCI Express 1.0). Works fine.