• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.74-85
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• 2015

PCI Express is a well-known and widely used de-facto system bus standard for connecting among a processor and IO devices. PCI Express is originated from old PCI standard, and its most of applications are limited to be used within a PC or server system. But, because of its fast speed, low power consumption, and good protocol efficiency, it is considered as one of a good candidate for an alternate system interconnect for many years. In this paper, we present design, implementation and early evaluation of an alternate system interconnect by utilizing PCI Express. The developed alternate system interconnect using PCI Express (named PCIeLINK) utilizes non-transparent bridging (NTB) technic which generally used in fail-over system in PCI and PCI Express. By using NTB technic, PCI Express device can be extended to outside of a system without electrical and logical problems arising during system boot and enumeration. To build up an alternate system interconnect, we designed and implemented a network interface card having multiple PCI Express ${\times}4$ connections (theoretically 20 Gbps) and tested, The early test results revealed that an ${\times}4$ port in the card showed 8.6 Gbps peak performance for bulk transmission and 5.1 Gbps peak for normal TCP/IP transfer.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.48 no.12
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• pp.1005-1012
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• 2020

Avionics systems that use the PCI-Express bus unfortunately cannot use at least one I/O device if the bus fails, because the I/O device is connected to CPU through only one PCI-Express channel. This paper presents a fault-tolerant architecture of the PCI-Express bus for avionics systems, which tolerates one channel failure with help of the other redundant channel that has not been failed. In this architecture, each redundant PCI-Express channel connects a corresponding port of CPU to each switch logic of channels to provide each I/O device through a switched fault-tolerant channel. This paper includes the results of experimentation to show that the architecture detects the faulty condition in real time and switches the channel to the other redundant channel which has not been failed, when the architecture meets a failure.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.105-112
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• 2017

PCI Express is a bus technology that connects the processor and the peripheral I/O devices that widely used as an industry standard because it has the characteristics of high-speed, low power. In addition, PCI Express is system interconnect technology such as Ethernet and Infiniband used in high-performance computing and computer cluster. PGAS(partitioned global address space) programming model is often used to implement the one-sided RDMA(remote direct memory access) from multi-host systems, such as computer clusters. In this paper, we design and implement a OpenSHMEM API based on PCI Express maintaining the existing features of OpenSHMEM to implement RDMA based on PCI Express. We perform experiment with implemented OpenSHMEM API through a matrix multiplication example from system which PCs connected with NTB(non-transparent bridge) technology of PCI Express. The PCI Express interconnection network is currently very expensive and is not yet widely available to the general public. Nevertheless, we actually implemented and evaluated a PCI Express based interconnection network on the RDK evaluation board. In addition, we have implemented the OpenSHMEM software stack, which is of great interest recently.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.4 s.106
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• pp.133-143
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• 2007

PCI Express는 고속 차동신호를 사용한 점대점(point-to-point) 프로토콜로 신호무결성(signal-integrity) 측정을 위해 기존의 병렬버스신호와 다른 파라미터(parameter)들이 사용되고 있다. PCI Express 시스템에서 중요한 전기 파라미터는 loss와 jitter이며 eye diagram을 통해서 분석이 가능하다. 본 고는 PCI Express 송수신 버퍼의 전기 규격과 애드인카드(add-in card) 시스템의 전기적 여유(budgets)의 의미와 분석을 다룬다. 또한 실제적인 PCI Express 시스템에서 전기 파라미터들을 측정하고 분석, 디버깅의 방법을 다룬다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.125-132
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• 2015

PCI Express is high-speed point-to-point serial protocol, the system is designed by analysing loss and jitter through Eye Diagram. It is necessarily analyzing high speed serial signals when the PCI Express Gen3 which has 8Gbps physical signal speed is designed especially. This paper deals with topology extraction, channel analysis, extraction of s-parameters and system signal integrity simulation within transceiver buffer models through PCI Express Gen3 server connecting switch system design. Optimal parameters of transmitter buffer equalizer are found through solution space simulation of de-emphasis and preshoot parameters to compensate channel loss.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.95-103
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• 2017

The PCI Express is a widely used system bus technology that connects the processor and the peripheral I/O devices. The PCI Express is nowadays regarded as a de facto standard in system area interconnection network. It has good characteristics in terms of high-speed, low power. In addition, PCI Express is becoming popular interconnection network technology as like Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Myrinet which are extensively used in high-performance computing. In this paper, we designed and implemented a evaluation platform for interconnect network using PCI Express between two computing nodes. We make use of the non-transparent bridge (NTB) technology of PCI Express in order to isolate between the two subsystems. We constructed a testbed system and evaluated the performance on the testbed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.811-814
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• 2003

Today's and tomorrow's processors and I/O devices are demanding much higher I/O bandwidth than PCI 2.3 or PCI-X can deliver and it is time to engineer a new generation of PCI to serve as a standard I/O bus for future generation platforms. According to this demand the PCI SIG proposed PCI Express. This paper describes about the design of PCI Express Behavioral Model. A Behavioral Model enables the designers to test whether the design specifications are met by performing computer simulations rather than experiments on the physical prototype. In the proposed Model, we can verify whether our design concept satisfies the PCI Express functional protocol.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.41-44
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose design of PCI Express Physical Layer for IP. The proposed design is compatible with PCI Express Base specification Revision 1.0a. and supports only single Lane. The best feature of this design is that Physical Layer includes Power Management block. Therefor, the entire design of PCI Express component is simplified. In the near future, as optimizing this design and extending Lane, we will redesign Physical Layer.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• summer
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• pp.281-284
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• 2004

In this paper, a verification method and model for a PCI-Express device are described. PCI-Express technology is one of new I/O interconnection technologies which is intended to replace conventional PCI based technology, and is introduced by PCI-SIG in 2002. For a fast prototyping, a verification suite which includes a behavioral model and stimuli is needed before actual design is finished. And also it should be simple in structure and accurate enough to verify the design. In this paper, an Early Verification Suite (EVS) which complies with PCI-Express protocol is developed and tested.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.69-72
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• 2003

The PCI Express spec introduces retry buffer in Data Link Layer For data integrity. But this buffer have some restrictions as buffer's usage. So we proposed effective management for retry buffer on PCI-Express interface. Proposed buffer management give increase performance and data integrity simultaneously.