PCI Express Evolution

"PCI Express Evolution" offers a comprehensive exploration of PCIe technology's transformation from its PCI origins to its current status as the backbone of modern computing systems. The book masterfully chronicles how this essential interconnect standard has adapted to meet increasingly demanding data transfer requirements across personal devices and enterprise servers, while maintaining crucial backward compatibility throughout its generations.

Through a well-structured approach, the book divides its investigation into three major sections: fundamental architecture and protocols, implementation challenges across different PCIe generations, and future technological roadmaps. Readers gain deep insights into critical concepts like lane configuration, serial communication, and packet-based data transfer, supported by technical diagrams and real-world performance metrics. The text particularly shines in its detailed examination of how PCIe has continuously evolved to support emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

What sets this book apart is its balanced presentation of complex technical material, making it accessible to both seasoned engineers and technical enthusiasts. By incorporating practical examples and clear explanations of signal integrity challenges, power management considerations, and system design principles, it serves as an invaluable resource for hardware engineers, system architects, and IT professionals looking to understand and work with high-speed interconnect technologies. The inclusion of current implementation challenges and ongoing technical debates provides readers with highly relevant, practical knowledge for real-world applications.

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Release date

Ebook: 8 January 2025