Motivating future interconnects: A differential measurement analysis of PCI latency

ANCS'09: Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 94-103

  Miller, David J ^a   Watts, Philip M ^a   Moore, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

experimental evaluation; FPGA; interconnects; latency; measurement; microbenchmark; PCI express

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FPGA; INTERCONNECTS; LATENCY; MICRO-BENCHMARK; PCI EXPRESS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78650960951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882486.1882513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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