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 ...

Royal Philips Electronics and Xilinx, Inc. announced plans to cooperate in the design of semiconductor hardware and intellectual property related to the PCI Express interface. The collaboration is ...

Micronas will demonstrate a PCI Express reference design for dual-channel ATSC digital and analog TV reception at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. The MicViper design has ...

The ultra high-speed UART, flexible clock prescalar, and large 256-byte Tx/Rx FIFOs allow the adapter to support the widest range of standard and non-standard baud rates exceeding 921.6 Kbps. These ...

Broadcom last week shipped several Gigabit Ethernet controllers that take advantage of the new, high-speed PCI Express bus that is being used in servers. Broadcom says the devices are the first ...

Start-up Neterion last week unveiled the first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter to use the PCI Express bus. Founded in 2001 as S2io, Neterion specializes in such high-speed adapters, having already ...

NEC is developing a system that can extend the conventional PCI Express interface found in most PCs and servers over standard Ethernet to distances of 2 kilometers or more. ExpEther, as the company ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

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), ...

PCI-SIG is on a tear lately. Not content to pop PCIe 5.0 out before 4.0 is in-market, they've already started work on 6.0, with a 2021 target release date. That would put the new standard in market by ...