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Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023 is right around the corner on Aug. 8-10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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PCI-SIG® is excited to invite members back to our annual PCI-SIG U.S. Developers Conference (DevCon) in the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA from June 13-14.
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The PCI-SIG® Members Forum is a resource for members to ask a variety of technical questions about PCI Express® (PCIe®) specifications and applications.
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In 2022, PCI-SIG® introduced PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 Compliance Testing to members. PCIe 5.0 specification official testing includes a maximum link speed of 32 GT/s.
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In 2022, PCI-SIG® introduced PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 Compliance Testing to members. PCIe 5.0 specification official testing includes a maximum link speed of 32 GT/s.
- Standards and Compliance
- PCI Express 5.0
- PCI Express compliance
- PCIe 5.0 Compliance
- PCI-SIG Compliance

In early 2022, PCI-SIG® released the full version of the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification.
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- PAM4 signaling
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PCI-SIG® in 2022: A Year to Celebrate
By Mihaela Erler and Scott Knowlton, PCI-SIG MWG Co-Chairs
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Advanced IP Design for PCI Express® Technology
By Scott Knowlton, PCI-SIG MWG Co-Chair
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Around the World with PCI-SIG: Join Us at the 2022 International DevCons
By Richard Solomon, PCI-SIG Vice President and Developers Conference Chair
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By Scott Knowlton and Mihaela Erler, PCI-SIG MWG Co-Chairs
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The PCI-SIG® Board of Directors honored three individuals for their years of service and contributions to the development and expansion of PCI Express® (PCIe®) technology during the PCI-SIG US DevCon 2022 on June 21-22 in
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It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since PCI-SIG® formed in 1992.
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Following the release of the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification to members earlier this year, PCI-SIG® had the unique opportunity to participate in three IT industry podcasts.
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Following the release of the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification to members earlier this year, PCI-SIG® had the unique opportunity to participate in three IT industry podcasts.
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- PCIe 6.0 specification
- PCIe 6.0 architecture
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- PCI-SIG Membership

With the ever-growing importance of security, we continue to see strong industry interest in Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE). As with any new technology, questions have been raised and addressed through new errata.
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Infographic of the PCIe 6.0 Architecture
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- Forward Error Correction

PCI-SIG® built upon our momentum from 2020 with another successful year in 2021. From progress on the PCIe 5.0 architecture compliance program to the impending release of the PCIe 6.0 specification, we have hit many exciting milestones.
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PCI-SIG® built upon our momentum from 2020 with another successful year in 2021. From progress on the PCIe 5.0 architecture compliance program to the impending release of the PCIe 6.0 specification, we have hit many exciting milestones.
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The CXL™ Consortium and PCI-SIG® are excited to announce a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two organizations.
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With the emergence of autonomous vehicles, AI-based advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), today’s automobiles are becoming high-tech “servers on wheels.” PCI Express® (PCIe®) technology is expanding to become the interconnect of choice in automotive applicat
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The upcoming PCIe® 6.0 specification introduces Flow Control Unit (FLIT) encoding, which enables the specification to provide low latency with high efficiency. FLIT mode is adopted for the PCIe 6.0 architecture because error correction needs to operate on fixed sized packets.
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By: Hope Bovenzi, Strategic Marketing, Astera Labs
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With global health and safety concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic still greatly limiting in-person events in 2021, PCI-SIG® continues to offer compliance workshop opportunities to our members virtually.
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- PCIe 6.0 specification
- PAM4 signaling
- PCIe 6.0 architecture
- PCIe form factor
- FLIT Mode
- PCIe FEC
With global health and safety concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic still greatly limiting in-person events in 2021, PCI-SIG® continues to offer compliance workshop opportunities to our members virtually.
- Standards & Compliance
- PCIe 6.0 specification
- PAM4 signaling
- PCIe 6.0 architecture
- PCIe form factor
- FLIT Mode
- PCIe FEC
Wow, 2020 sure has transformed the ways we connect, learn and innovate in industries around the world, and in our daily lives!
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Wow, 2020 sure has transformed the ways we connect, learn and innovate in industries around the world, and in our daily lives!
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- PCI Express compliance
- PCI-SIG Integrators List
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- PCIe 3.0
One of the many new features included in the PCI Express® (PCIe®) specification will be PAM4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) signaling.
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- Forward Error Correction
For almost two decades, the PCI Express® (PCIe®) architecture has offered low latency and high bandwidth in support of next generation systems.
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- PCI Express 6.0
- PAM4
- PCIe FEC
- Forward Error Correction
- FLIT
We are starting 2020 with the release of version 0.5 of the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification incorporating the significant member feedback received on version 0.3.
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- PAM4
- PCIe FEC
- Forward Error Correction
- FLIT
- PCI Express specification
The Internet of Things (IoT) Industry is rapidly growing in popularity and breadth of applications.
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- PCI Express
- PCIe low power
- PCIe form factors
From Israel to Europe and Japan to Taiwan, the PCI-SIG® Israel, Europe and APAC 2019 Developers Conference tour has come to an end for the year.
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- PCI-SIG DevCon
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- PCI Express 560
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The first installment of the PCI-SIG® educational webinar series, “Retimers to the Rescue: PCI Express® Specifications Reach Their Full Potential” premiered on October 9, 2019.
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PCI Express® (PCIe®) technology is deployed worldwide by PCI-SIG member companies, so it only makes sense that PCI-SIG® travels around the globe too.
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PCI Express® (PCIe®) technology is deployed worldwide by PCI-SIG member companies, so it only makes sense that PCI-SIG® travels around the globe too.
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- PCI Express compliance
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Retimers and redrivers have enabled longer physical channels in servers and storage systems since Peripheral Component Interface Express (PCIe®) 3.0 specification was first introduced almost 10 years ago.
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The SD Association (SDA) recently announced SD Express, which adds the PCI Express® and NVMe™ interfaces to the SD interface. The PCIe® interface delivers transfer rates up to 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) and supports backward compatibility with existing SD hosts.
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I am pleased to announce that PCI Express® 5.0 specification, Version 1.0— reaching 32GT/s transfer rates—has been released to our members in less than 2 years.
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On January 22, 2019, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive to mitigate DNS infrastructure tampering intended to disrupt and redirect government and business communications.
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- Secure Boot
- PCIe Component Authentication
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PCI-SIG® is proud to announce that we have established a working relationship with DMTF to simplify hardware management.
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At PCI-SIG, we take pride in ensuring that our specifications operate without a hitch. However, sometimes PCI Express developers need to submit Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) to update parts of the specification so that PCIe integrated products can reach their optimal functionality.
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- PCIe Engineering Change Requests
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- UEFI
- ACPI
This is already shaping up to be a busy year for PCI-SIG® with the pending release of the PCI Express® 5.0 specification targete
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- PCIe 5.0
- PCI Express 5.0
- Embedded World
- SD Association
- OCP Global Summit
PCI Express® – also known as PCIe – used to get a bad rap for being power hungry on servers and PCs. But I’m happy to say that this is no longer the case. Are you aware that PCIe today is extremely power efficient with built-in low power features?
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- PCI-SIG
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- PCIe Latency
- PCIe low power
I’m looking forward to attending the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) next week in Santa Clara.
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- PCI-SIG
- Flash Memory Summit
- FMS
- NVMe
- Flash Storage
Press conference on June 5 to announce PCIe 5.0 spec updates
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