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The new PCI Express spec significantly improves desktop-PC graphics. Developers are now working on Generation 2, which will further expand the graphics pipe.

With a new PCI Express specification in hand, designers are creating the interconnecting building blocks of tomorrow's high-performance embedded systems.

Scalable performance and low cost are making PCI Express attractive for communications-device designs, challenging proprietary-bus structures for next-generation design wins.

Advances in PC and silicon technologies allow low-cost, PC-based plug-in devices to accurately and quickly perform measurements and control.

Interchip interconnections now choke traffic flow and limit peak performance. New standards may be the way to overcome this imbalance.

At data rates as high as 2 Gbps per lane, little things can make big differences in signal integrity. Experts disagree on whether thinking about what's really going on can improve performance or only make it worse.