National Instruments Cabled PCI Express manual

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Cabled PCI Express as a Standard Interface for Virtual and Synthetic Instruments

Figure 2. NI MXI Express uses cabled PCI Express to connect a Laptop with ExpressCard to PXI

When MXI-1 first launched in 1991 it provided 10MB/s bandwidth. This was state-of-the-art and used commercial technologies available at that time (see Figure 3). By incorporating cabled PCI Express into the MXI product line can now sustain nearly 800 MB/s.

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