PLX Technology has announced its first three PCI Express devices, the PEX 8516 and PEX 8532 switches supporting 16 lanes with four ports and 32 lanes with eight ports, respectively, and the PEX ...

On the rare instance you'll need exclusive access to a PCI device, you can isolate it via VMDirectPath HBA. There are so many vSphere features that are new, it's sometimes difficult to keep up with ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

What is a PCI device? Different PCI devices use different drivers. If your PCI device driver is corrupted or missing, you need simply to determine the manufacturer of the device, then visit that ...

PLDA’s SR-IOV solution accelerates development of virtualized applications through use of an industry standard, easy-to-configure PCI Express interface. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Oct 1, 2013 -- PLDA, the ...

Hot-pluggable devices have been created to solve a number of user needs. On laptop computers, PCMCIA devices were designed to allow the user to swap cards while the computer was still running. This ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

Often you may not necessarily know what kind of hardware you have—you may have a no-name box from a smaller company or a used machine. This month, I present the tools you can use to find out what you ...

While server virtualization is being widely deployed in an effort to reduce costs and optimize data center resource usage, an additional key area where virtualization has an opportunity to shine is in ...

Q: What is PCI Express? A: PCI Express is a scalable, high-speed, point-to-point serial interface designed to replace PCI. Also known as PCIe, it features power ...