Research and Markets: "PCI Express, the Journey to 2.0" Catalogs All of the Major Product Announcements Involving PCI Express from May 2006 to December 2006.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50548) has announced the addition of PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. , the Journey to 2.0 to their offering. In 2002, the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced "base" and "card electrical mechanical" standards for PCI Express. PCI Express was a welcomed evolution from the venerated PCI interconnection standard. PCI Express remained backward compatible Refers to hardware or software that is compatible with earlier versions of the product. Also called "downward compatible." Contrast with forward compatible. backward compatible - backward compatibility with PCI in terms of software and drivers. However, PCI Express was a serial interconnection, different from PCI, which had been a point-to-point interconnect. Products starting to use PCI Express trickled onto the market in 2H03. Personal computers (PCs) and servers saw early adoption and by 2006, nearly every PC and server with an x86 architecture The generic term x86 refers to the "CISC" type instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture[1] in the history of personal computing, used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and others. had a PCI Express interconnection. Once an application gets tied to the legacy PCI bus PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect , there is an opportunity to draw from a vast network of software applications for programming and drivers. Other standards such as PXI (PCI EXtensions for Instrumentation) A peripheral bus specialized for data acquisition and real time control systems. Introduced in 1997, PXI uses the CompactPCI 3U and 6U form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus and other functions suited for measurement (PCI eXtension for Instrumentation), CompactPCI, and VITA (VMEbus International Trade Association) are all extensions of PCI. While the transition from PCI to PCI Express took longer for PCI-hybrid from factors than in PCs, these specialized boards are integrating the PCI Express bus. PCI Express, the Journey to 2.0, catalogs all of the major product announcements involving PCI Express from May 2006 to December 2006. The report examines the improvements that allow PCI Express 2.0 to increase frequency from 2.5GHz to 5GHz. Lastly, a forecast of PCI Express uses by devices and vertical markets is provided from 2004-2010. In This Update Introduction Product Releases May 2006 to December 2006 PCI Express 2.0 Geneseo PCI Express Forecast List of Tables Table 1. Testing Equipment Using PCI Express Table 2. FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. Using PCI Express Table 3. Micro Boards, CompactPCI and PXI Cards and IP, and Handheld Computers Table 4. Commercial Digital Video Recorders See DVR. and Frame Grabbers Using PCI Express Table 5. SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. and RAID Storage Applications Using PCI Express Table 6. Physical Connectivity for PCI Express Applications Table 7. Miscellaneous Boards Using PCI Express Table 8. Miscellaneous Cards Using PCI Express Table 9. Announcements Involving Intellectual Property, Design IP, or Software Using PCI Express Table 10. Switching and Bridging Products Using PCI Express Table 11. Host Bus Adapters and Interfaces Using PCI Express Table 12. Controllers Using PCI Express Table 13. Miscellaneous Product Announcements Using PCI Express Table 14. PCI Express Forecast By Market Verticals (Units in Thousands), 2004-2010 List of Figures Figure 1. PCI Express Shipments, By Total Devices (Units in Millions), 2004-2010 Figure 2. PCI Express Roadmap For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50548 |
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