Nt1310 Bus Research Paper

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Introduction The bus loosely defines as a digital path between resources and the processor of computer system. The bus provides an informational gateway or highway of wires, which allow binary signals to transmit to and from peripherals, memory, the central processing unit (CPU), and other components of a computer system. Due to these attributes, bus architecture divided into two major groups, frontside bus and peripheral bus. The frontside bus, also known as the system bus, facilitates all internal communication of binary signals from the CPU to memory and vice versa. System bus two subdivisions, address bus transmits the signaling of address locations within memory, and the data bus subsets transfer the data to the specified memory location. …show more content…

The ISA bus, used in 386 and 486 systems, consists of 24 address lines and 16 data lines to transmit data within a computer system. PCI bus a 32-bit bus developed by Intel to extend the local bus of a CPU, and retains the ability to extend 64-bit processors as well, but only transmits at half-duplex. AGP a bus specifically designed for video cardo cards to transfer data from the CPU to video display output devices, however currently replaced by PCI Express in modern day computers. PCI Express bus architecture provides bidirectional transmission of data, allowing data transference and reception of data simultaneously on platform faster than PCI bus. IEEE 1394 bus a high-speed bus that uses serial technology to daisy chain devices, but only can transmit data for short limited distances. (Ram, …show more content…

Supports up to 127 peripheral devices on a single USB bus, providing users with true expandability of a bus architecture. ("Brief USB Overview and USB History", n.d.) The two power lines provided by USB provide users the ability to provide low-voltage usage peripherals, without the need of additional power supplies or other power mediums. Only two lines of the four lines utilized for data transmission with USB providing bidirectional three methods for transference of data, isochronous or real-time, interrupt driven and bulk data transfer. However, USB still provides three transmission rates of data low-speed a data transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps (Megabits per second), and medium mode data transfer rate of 12 Mbps, high-speed transfer rate up to 480 Mbps, and USB 3.0, the latest version, design to support up to 5.0 Gbit/s (Gigabit per second) super-speed data transfer. ("Brief USB Overview and USB History", n.d.) The hot pluggable capabilities allow the operating system to automatically load desire drivers, once a device connected to a USB port. Hot swappable allowing the connection and unplugging of peripherals with requiring a computer system to

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