We've all heard the story. Parallel shared-bus architectures are showing their age, especially in communication designs pushing into the 2.5-Gbit/s range and beyond. As a result, designers are ...

Now nearing completion, the Advanced Switching (AS) specification brings switch-fabric speed and scalability to PCI. AS shares PCI Express Base's physical and data link layers, but new applications ...

After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to ...

Data communications and telecommunications systems are converging, placing new requirements on the system building blocks that are at the heart of the communications infrastructure. This has placed ...