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A Fundamental Element of the PCI Architecture is the Concept of Bridges

Overview PCI systems make extensive use of bridging to achieve innovative, high performance architectures. Through bridging, systems may be customized for slot expansion. Bridging on add-in cards can add multiple channels or improve performance by off-loading the CPU. However to take advantage of all that bridging can offer, system BIOS firmware and chipset silicon need to be able to support bridge operation.

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Publisher	Adaptec	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	337
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bridges, Interfaces / Buses / I/Os

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