In another example of superior architecture, the Power Mac G4 optimises PCI performance by connecting the PCI bus directly to the system controller. In a typical PC architecture, PCI devices connect ...

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 ...

This Design Idea describes a VHDL implementation of a PCI 2.2-bus arbiter (Figure 1). Any PCI system may have one or more PCI-master devices. Most devices can behave as target hosts, but one must be a ...

不排除会包含PCIe外设驱动模块，一切随缘。 作为专题的第一篇，当然会先从硬件总线入手。进入主题前，先讲点背景知识 ...

在Linux内核2.6.13-rc3以前，驱动和设备之间的绑定和解绑只能通过insmod(modprobe)和rmmod来实现，但是这种实现方法有一个弊端，就是一旦绑定或者解绑定都是针对驱动与其所支持的所有设备之间进行，无法实现驱动单独绑定或者解绑定一个设备。然而，在Linux内核2.6. ...

For more than a decade the PCI bus has been the backbone of personal computers. Other systems, such as telephony and networking, adopted the technology for its cost and performance advantages. But now ...

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 ...

The XIO2001 is a single-function PCI Express to PCI translation bridge that is fully compliant to the PCI Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge Specification, Revision 1.0. For downstream traffic, the bridge ...

Why the need for PCI Express? As processor clock speeds increase, parallel buses such as PCI become harder to implement. Signal skew and fan-out restrictions restrict the bandwidth achievable on a ...

OPINION: When new PC standards come online there is a danger to assume that the benefit will come from an immediate performance boost. Danger because one of the defining features that sets modern ...

The latest version of PCI Express brings massive bandwidth increases to PCs, enabling truly blistering SSD read and write speeds up to 14,000MBps. Here's what you need to know to get your PC storage ...

A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...