PCI Express Documentation Conventions

Capitalization

Some terms are capitalized to distinguish their definition in the context of this document from their common English meaning. Words not capitalized have their common English meaning. When terms such as “memory write” or “memory read” appear completely in lower case, they include all transactions of that type.
Register names and the names of fields and bits in registers and headers are presented with the first letter capitalized and the remainder in lower case.

Numbers and Number Bases

Hexadecimal numbers are written with a lower case “h” suffix, e.g., FFFh and 80h. Hexadecimal numbers larger than four digits are represented with a space dividing each group of four digits, as in 1E FFFF FFFFh. Binary numbers are written with a lower case “b” suffix, e.g., 1001b and 10b. Binary numbers larger than four digits are written with a space dividing each group of four digits, as in 1000 0101 0010b.
All other numbers are decimal.

Implementation Notes

Implementation Notes should not be considered to be part of this specification. They are included for clarification and illustration only.

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