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“The PCI Express
in an I/O interconnect bus standard (which includes a protocol and a layered
architecture) that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original
PCI. PCI Express is a two-way, serial connection that carries data in
packets along two pairs of point-to-point data lanes, compared to the
single parallel data bus of traditional PCI that routes data at a set
rate.
Initial bit rates
for PCI Express reach 2.5Gb/s per lane direction, which equate to data
transfer rates of approximately 200MB/s. PCI Express was developed so
that high-speed interconnects such as 1394b, USB 2.0, InfiniBand and Gigabit
Ethernet would have an I/O architecture suitable for their transfer high
speeds.” (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PCI_Express.html)
Samtec offers products that meet the PCI Express form factor as well as connectors and cables that are capable of PCI Express speeds.
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