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Nov 28, 2023

Author’s Note: This blog discusses new functionality introduced in the PCIe 6.0 specification, but please note that subsequent revisions have been published. Developers should always work from the latest revision to ensure they see all specification errata.

  • PCI Express Specification
  • PCI Express 6.0 Specification
  • PCIe 6.0 specification
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • PCIe 6.0 FEC
  • PCIe PAM4
  • PCIe L0p
  • PCIe low power
Sep 19, 2023

Author’s Note: This blog discusses new functionality introduced in the PCIe 6.0 specification, but please note that the PCIe 6.0.1 and PCIe 6.1 specification revisions have been published.

  • PCI Express Specification
  • PCI Express 6.0 Specification
  • PCIe 6.0 specification
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • PCI Express 6.0 Forward Error Correction
  • PCIe 6.0 FEC
  • FLIT Mode
Jul 23, 2019

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.

  • Standards & Compliance
  • PCI-SIG
  • SD Association
  • SD Express
  • NVMe
  • PCIe 3.0
  • PCI Express 3.0
Jun 19, 2019

I am happy to share that PCI-SIG® has begun developing the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification, targeted for release in 2021.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCIe 6.0
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • PCIe PAM4
  • PCIe FEC
  • PCIe Forward Error Correction
  • PCIe 6.0 specification
  • PCI Express 6.0 Specification
  • PCI Express PAM4
  • PCIe 6.0 FEC
  • PCI Express 6.0 FEC
  • PCIe6.0 Forward Error Correction
  • PCI Express 6.0 Forward Error Correction
May 06, 2019

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.

  • Standards & Compliance
  • PCIe Cybersecurity
  • Secure Boot
  • PCIe Component Authentication
  • Firmware
Mar 09, 2019

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.

  • Standards & Compliance
  • PCIe Engineering Change Requests
  • Firmware
  • UEFI
  • ACPI
Aug 24, 2018

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?

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCI-SIG
  • PCI Express 3.0
  • PCIe 3.0
  • PCIe Latency
  • PCIe low power