DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Current parallel backplane technologies are rapidly being replaced with advanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...