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What are computer buses and what are the functions of computer buses and its types?

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Definition, function and types of buses

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Good Day Madoona,

Computer buses is very essential because it connects internal components of computer to the motherboard and it acts as expansion slot.

Types of Computer Buses;
1. Processor Bus – used to connect CPU or it is the location where CPU seated.
2. Memory Bus – also known as memory slots and it is the location where you connect the memory.
3. PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) – used as expansion slot for USB card, LAN card, RAID controller, and VGA card.
4. AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) – used for VGA card
5. PCI-E (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) – used for VGA card.

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Hi madoona,

 A computer bus that carries different types of data from one to the other and also controls the signals from one unit to the other .

Types of buses :

  1. Address bus : It is a unidirectional pathway which carries the address generated by processor  to memory and input/output components . In address bus we have address bus size, addressing capacity , address codes.
  2. Data bus : It is bi-directional in nature .Data flows along the data bus from processor to memory during the writing operation.
  3. Control bus : It carries the timing and signal to co-ordinate activities of entire system .Types of control signals
  • System clock (sysclk)
  • Read/write line (R/W LINE )
  • Memory read (MEMR)
  • Memory write (MEMW)
  • I/O read (IOR)
  • I/O write (IOW)
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