The PCI specification has an extensive following in multiple disciplines. However, as system performance has increased, the inherent limitations of a bus architecture create an overall system ...

But what does it take to get started with ISA or PCI expansion cards today ... to IBM’s proprietary Micro Channel architecture (MCA) bus. MCA itself was envisioned by IBM as the replacement ...

Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 independent, serial lanes (x1-x32) that transfer in parallel. Each lane is full duplex (see ...

An enhancement to the PCI bus architecture that allowed PCI and ISA buses to transfer data simultaneously. For example, using Concurrent PCI, video performance was improved with a PCI graphics ...