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Express Yourself
Richard has been talking about how long it’s been since he’s posted. I have to say, it’s been forever since I’ve posted a blog and I’ll need to work on that in 2019. Yes, I’m still alive and kicking and so much has happened since I’ve posted. More on that in another post. The PCIe […]
No, no, “it” does NOT refer to “get Richard back on the blog after some 4 months of silence” – although I think Scott was starting to think that and was probably considering threats of bodily harm! I know there was a LOT of (very well justified, I have to confess) skepticism when the PCI-SIG […]
I’m afraid that I’m showing my age again with this title, and in truth time has shown that video did *NOT* kill off radio/audio-only media. In much the same way, I believe that nothing takes the place of an in-person presentation. Even when an audience is not asking questions, I find that there’s a connection […]
Whew, what a week! That’s another PCI-SIG Developers Conference in the books though. I was just in sunny Santa Clara (California of course) discussing all things PCI Express® technology with more than 560 PCI-SIG® members from around the world. Our members come together to learn from the PCIe® experts leading the spec development work as […]
You’re probably thinking “Wait a minute Richard, it’s not May anymore!” which is why I titled this “May 32nd…” What, you’re not buying off on me adjusting the calendar? Darn. I guess I just have to admit to being late with my promised follow-up from May’s PCI-SIG European Developers Conference. Sigh. The good news is […]
PCI-SIG Board Election Time that is – please vote before Tuesday at noon Pacific! Many of you know me well enough to realize I hate this part of the PCI-SIG Board “job” but if I don’t wear this hat around, I won’t have the PCI-SIG “hat” to wear representing you. So I’m once again out drumming […]
Well things are about to get busier – though given I got off a plane Thursday night from the PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop #105 and got on another one less than 12 hours later to go to a family wedding… Perhaps my definition of “busy” is a bit suspect! In any case, there’s a full slate […]
I wanted to title this “Upstream, downstream, in my lady’s chamber” in honor of the old nursery rhyme “Goosey, goosey, gander” – but after reading what Wikipedia has to say about the nursery rhyme it didn’t seem quite as childlike as I remembered… I also thought that putting “in my lady’s chamber” in a blog title […]
Happy New Year! Well, at least for those of you who celebrate the Lunar New Year (which was often called “Chinese New Year” back before I was old enough to drive). If you don’t normally celebrate now, then take the rest of the day off and tell your boss I told you to*. This may end […]
So back in what seems like another lifetime, I said “The official PCI Express Base Specification Revision 4.0 final specification has been released – get it here: https://members.pcisig.com/wg/PCI-SIG/document/10912?downloadRevision=active Stay tuned for the goodies of course!” The only problem is that you’ve been staying tuned … and staying tuned … and staying tuned some more and […]
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This blog is all about PCI Express: the wonderful ways that it enhances the products around you, the challenges designers face in implementation, and how the specification is evolving to make PCIe Express an even more useful protocol. I'll also examine how the other specifications, such as NVM Express, SATA Express and SCSI-Over-PCI Express (SOP) are leveraging PCI Express. If there is a topic that is of interest to you, feel free to "Express Yourself" by offering your insights on this blog.
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Scott KnowltonI started out my career as a chip designer in a variety of industries and it’s likely that a few, of the more than 30 designs I’ve been responsible for, are still floating around somewhere in outer space. My IP career started at Synopsys in 1997 and over the last 15 years, I have seen tremendous changes in the semiconductor industry’s perception and adoption of IP. I started working on PCI Express in 2003 when Synopsys was getting ready to launch our first PCI Express IP solution. Since then, I have been managing the DesignWare PCI Express IP product line through all of the changes in the specification and the industry as it moves towards becoming the de-facto interconnect standard. I received a B.S.E.E from the University of Michigan (M Go Blue!), am an avid red wine drinker (love California reds) and use English as a second language when my fluency in sarcasm just doesn’t get the job done.
Richard Solomon
I’ve been involved in the development of PCI chips dating back to the NCR 53C810 and pre-1.0 versions of the PCI spec so have definitely lived the evolution of PCI Express and PCI since the very beginning! Over the years I have worked on variations of PCI, eventually moving on to architecting and leading the development of the PCI Express and PCI-X interface cores used in LSI’s line of storage RAID controller chips. For the last ten plus years I've also had the honor of serving on the PCI-SIG Board of Directors and holding a variety of officer positions. I am still involved in PCI-SIG workgroups and I present at many PCI-SIG events around the world. Back before the dawn of PCI, I received my B.S.E.E. from Rice University, and hold over two dozen U.S. Patents, many of which relate to PCI technology.