What are the features of PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus?

There are some important features of PCI bus are given below,

• Singling Environment : Support both 3.3 and 5 volt signaling environments.
• Reliability: It offers the ability to replace modules without disturbing a system’s operation called as hot plug and hot swap.
• Speed: It can transfer up to 132 MB per second.
• Configurability : The ability to configure a system automatically means automatically identify the interfacing systems and assigns new addresses.
• Synchronous bus architecture : PCI is a synchronous bus where data transfer takes place according to a system clock.
• 32 and 64 bit addressing : The PCI bus also supports 64 bit addressing with the same 32 bit connector.
• Large bandwidth : It can handle both 32 bit as well as 64 bit data hence the maximum bandwidth will be 132 MB per second.

Peripheral component interconnect