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Multiport Serial Board Guidebook
Multiport Serial Board Guidebook
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PCI Express Introduction
A single PCI Express serial link is a dual-simplex
connection using two pairs of wires (one pair for
transmit and one pair for receive) to transmit only
one bit per cycle. Although this sounds limiting,
it can transmit at the extremely high speed of 2.5
Gbps, which equates to a burst mode of 320 Mbps
(Mega-bytes/sec) on a single connection. These two
pairs of wires is called a lane.
What’s the difference between PCI and PCI Express
PCI Express uses a serial interface and allows for
point-to-point interconnections between devices
using directly wired interfaces between these connec-
tion points. This differs from previous PCI bus archi-
tectures that used a shared, parallel bus architecture.
Moxa Multiport Serial Board Slot Type Selection Guide
Interface 2P RS-232 4P RS-232 8P RS-232 2P RS-485 4P RS-485 8P RS-485
ISA
√ √ √ √ √
PC/104
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PCI
√ √ √ √ √
PCI-X
√ √ √ √ √ √
PCI Express*
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* For detailed information about all products, please visit Moxa’s website or contact our distributors.
* PCI Express boards will be available before the end of October, 2005.
PCI Replacement
PCI Express is the industry’s attempt to unify all of the
current different types of I/O bus into a single “future
proof” standard. Over the past ten years, PCI has
handled the large and varying uses it has been given,
most of which were never foreseen when the speci-
fication was created. Current PCI specifications are
based on a multi-drop, parallel bus implementation
that is coming very close to its performance limits,
which cannot be stretched without spending a large
amount of money for very little gain.
Bus Trend
Different Form Factor
PCI Express
PCI-X
PCI
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