Nearly two years after its formal introduction, PCI Express 4.0 is finally here. The specification promises higher speeds than the previous generation for internal storage, graphics cards, and more.

Whether processor or FPGA based, an embedded computer board’s performance capability, as well as its usability in different applications, is typically determined by the high speed bus interfaces it ...

Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

A circuit board that plugs into the computer's PCI bus and contains the control electronics for a peripheral device. Starting in the latter half of the 1990s, PCI became very popular. See PCI. THIS ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—PLX Technology Inc.'s latest bridge chip dubbed the PEX 8311 is designed to upgrade standard processor, DSP and FPGA bus interface designs to PCI Express (PCIe). The PEX 8311 1-lane ...

The PCI bus is the standard peripheral interface used with Internet-age computing. A microprocessor can run the "brains" of a computer, but all that calculating power is useless unless it can ...