pci local bus.pptVIP

Local Bus Concept More bandwidth Video Card Hard disks Faster CPUs But still slow IO bus Bus close to CPU and memory bus Dual Independent Bus (DIB) Backside Bus Frontside Bus PCI Direct access to system memory for connected devices Uses a bridge to connect to the frontside bus and therefore to the CPU Different level of Busses Bus Comparisons North / South bridge An Example Typical PCI Card PCI Revision 2.1 Features Processor independence Low-power consumption Burst use for all read and write transfers Bus speed up to 66 MHz 64-bit bus width Low pin count (PCI Target: 47,PCI Initiator: 49 p