Tuesday, April 10, 2012

PCI Express Introduction

This chapter presents an overview of the PCI Express architecture and key concepts. PCI Express
is a high performance, general purpose I/O interconnect defined for a wide variety of future
computing and communication platforms. Key PCI attributes, such as its usage model, load-store
architecture, and software interfaces, are maintained, whereas its parallel bus implementation is
5 replaced by a highly scalable, fully serial interface. PCI Express takes advantage of recent advances
in point-to-point interconnects, Switch-based technology, and packetized protocol to deliver new
levels of performance and features. Power Management, Quality Of Service (QoS), Hot-Plug/Hot-
Swap support, Data Integrity, and Error Handling are among some of the advanced features
supported by PCI Express.

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