TRANSITIONNING FROM SHARED BUSES TO POINT-TO-POINT BUSES
- Limitations of the PCI
- Parallel vs serial transfers
- Differential mode
- Packet switching
- Convergence to a common physical layer
ENHANCEMENTS OF EXISTING BUSES
- Intel Hub Link solution
- PCI-X
- VME Renaissance : 2eVME + 2eSST
NEW COMPONENT INTERCONNECT BUSES
- Hypertransport
- Parallel RapidIO
- PCI Express
NEW CALCULATORS INTERCONNECT BUSES
- Infiniband
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Serial RapidIO
NEW BUSES ENABLING CONNECTION TO REMOTE PERIPHERALS
- S-ATA
- IEEE1394b
- USB2.0, USB3.0
- Serial FPDP
Summary
- Detailed comparison between Gigabit Ethernet, Serial RapidIO and PCI Express
- Various criterions are studied in order to clearly indicate the benefits and the disadvantages of these high speed interconnects