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Communication buses

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
The bus used by SSDs, GPUs, M.2 cards. Very high-speed differential.

How it looks

Drawing: this is not on CORE3588, so it is drawn
processorSSD(M.2 card)TX pairRX pairone lane = one pair each way; x4 = four lanes
One PCIe lane. The computer module on CORE3588 has PCIe pins, but this board leaves them unused.

How it works

POINT TO POINT, BOTH WAYS AT ONCEprocessorSSDone pair out, one pair back: a lanex1, x2, x4, x16 lanes; each lane several gigabits a second

Where it fits

The fastest of the pair-based buses here, next to USB and MIPI.

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