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Local computer bus for attaching hardware devices

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor's native bus. Devices connected to the PCI bus appear to a bus master to be connected directly to its own bus and are assigned addresses in the processor's address space. It is a parallel bus, synchronous to a single bus clock. Wikipedia →

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  1. History
  2. Auto configuration
  3. Interrupts
  4. Conventional hardware specifications
  5. Physical dimensions
  6. PCI bus transactions
  7. PCI bus latency
  8. PCI bus bridges
  9. PCI bus signals
  10. Development tools

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