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PCIe 2.0/3.0, PCI Express® Design & Test Information Resource Center

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, officially abbreviated as PCIe® or PCI Express®, is a computer expansion bus standard designed to replace the older bus standards such as PCI. 

PCIe 2.0 doubles the transfer rate of PCIe 1.0 to 5 GT/s and the per-lane throughput rises from 250 MB/s to 500 MB/s.

PCIe 3.0 has a 8 GT/s bit rate which is backward compatible with PCIe 2.0 and effectively delivers double the PCIe 2.0 bandwidth. 

Regardless of the PCIe generation design challenges you are facing, Agilent offers a complete solution set from electrical to protocol. Work with Agilent and achieve your best design.

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Physical Layer design challenges for PCI Express® 3.0 and 2.0 designs 
You will learn advanced techniques for PCI Express phy-layer validation covering the latest PCIe 3.0 specification requirements as well as practical extensions to PCIe 2.0 and 1.1 designs. This seminar analyzes transmitter and receiver performance.

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PCI Express 3.0 How to pass receiver compliance test for add-in cards and motherboards - webcast 
Original broadcast October 27, 2011

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PCI Express 3.0 Receiver test of ASICs- how to face this challenge - webcast 
When PCIe 3.0 was generated, it was a goal to re-use the existing passive infrastructure - the channels. With nearly double the signal rate (8Gb/s vs. 5Gb/s), the error free transmission now heavily depends on the RX. Therefore it is now normati...

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PCIe™ 3.0 Receiver Testing: How to Generate the Test Set-up and Calibrate the Stressed Eye 
Originally broadcast October 12, 2010

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