The Lane of PCI Express

A lane is composed of a transmit and receive pair of differential lines.

Each lane is composed of 4 wires or signal paths, meaning conceptually, each lane is a full-duplex byte stream, transporting data packets in 8 bit 'byte' format, between endpoints of a link, in both directions simultaneously.Physical PCIe slots may contain from one to thirty-two lanes, in powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32). Lane counts are written with an x prefix (e.g., x16 represents a sixteen-lane card or slot), with x16 being the largest size in common use.

August 17, 2011

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