Add-on cards have always served a great purpose in allowing us to add technologies to our systems without upgrading the entire machine. One such case that I encountered was building up a system based ...

An inexpensive card available from Amazon allows users of Apple's Mac Pro tower with PCI-E slots to get some of the benefits of the new USB-C connector — and faster USB 3.1 speeds. AppleInsider tells ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The PCMCIA standards group will announce a major makeover for PC plug-in cards on Wednesday (Feb. 19), putting them on the PCI Express interconnect. The effort is the first major ...

Sonnet's Allegro Pro is a solid PCI Express expansion card for those serious about their connectivity. For the general consumer, this card is still great, but you may want to wait for online sales to ...

1. PCI Express Mini Cards are available from a variety of vendors, including products such as Diamond Systems’DS-MPE-DAQ0804 Analog I/O Module (a), Versalogic’s VL-MPEe-U2e Serial+GPIO (b), and ...

As PC technology has evolved, the ability to use standard desktop and portable computers for sophisticated test, control, and design applications has improved dramatically. Economies of scale have ...

It's not often that a computer interface remains relevant over the course of a full decade, but that is exactly what USB 2.0 has accomplished since its release in April 2000. Over the past few years ...

[Jeff] found a Raspberry Pi — well, the compute module version, anyway — in an odd place: on a PCI Express card. Why would you plug a Raspberry Pi into a PC? Well, you aren’t exactly. The card uses ...

Computer interface standards are slow but surely reducing in number. What will be left standing in the end? It might be USB, PCI Express and Ethernet. PCI Express is absorbing functionality from other ...