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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
PCI and PCI-X communicate over this type of bus architecture
A
Parallel
B
Serial
C
Express
D
Dual
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The PCI bus includes four interrupt pins, later allow up to 8 PCI devices share the same interrupt line in APIC systems, all of which are available to each device. However, they are not wired in parallel as are the other PCI bus lines.

Detailed explanation-2: -PCI is designed to support variety of microprocessor best configuration including single and multi-processing system. It is an extension of PCI bus and supports 64 bit, 100MHz transfer. PCI – X is revised to double the maximum clock speed to improve the data exchange transfer between processor and peripherals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conventional PCI supports up to 64 bits at 66 MHz (though anything above 32 bits at 33 MHz is seen only in high-end systems). The theoretical maximum amount of data exchanged between the processor and peripherals with PCI-X is 1.06 GB/s, compared to 133 MB/s with standard PCI.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe or PCI-E) is a serial expansion bus standard for connecting a computer to one or more peripheral devices.

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