PCI Express® Standard

PCI Express is an industry-standard, high-performance, general-purpose serial I/O chip-to-chip and board-to-board interconnect providing a cost-effective, low-pin count interface offering maximum bandwidth per pin. Key features of the standard include: 

►High bandwidth, point-to-point interconnect 
     - I/O bandwidth scalable to 64 GBps at a signaling rate of 8 GHz 

►Scalable bandwidth to match system requirements 
     - Supports multiple interconnect widths from 1-32 PCI Express lanes 

►Built on top of existing PCI infrastructure 
     - Software compatible with existing OSs and device driver interfaces 

►Supports unique, advanced features 
     - Power management, hot swap and hot plug, data integrity, advanced error logging and reporting, QoS