Over the past two years, PCI Express has taken the tech industry by storm. Its high bandwidth, low pin count, and highly scalable architecture has allowed it to establish itself as the interconnect protocol of choice across all market segments. But as recently as two years ago, PCI Express-based systems were virtually nonexistent, with the exception of graphics systems (PCs). Today, all the major chipset vendors are implementing PCI Express technology into their chipsets. It can be found in servers, workstations, storage systems, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) controllers, Fibre Channel host-bus adapters, routers, switches, and in an array of instrumentation applications.
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