Buses & I/O

Question 1

B__: This is used for moving data around the computer

Answer 1

bus

Question 2

S_____ bus: This is when all the devices share the same bus for communication

Answer 2

single

Question 3

H______ bus: The system is subdivided and controllers and bridges are introduced

Answer 3

Hierarchical buses

Question 4

C_____ l____: Signal requests and acknowledgements that indicate the type of information on the data lines

Answer 4

control lines

Question 5

A_______ lines: This impacts the amount of memory the CPU can address

Answer 5

address

Question 6

D___ lines: the amount of data that goes in /out of a CPU in a given clock interval

Answer 6

data

Question 7

You can increase the performance of the data lines by increasing the number of lines or decreasing c___ time.

Answer 7

clock

Question 8

S_________ bus: has a clock signal as one of the control lines and is a processor-memory bus

Answer 8

Synchronous bus

Question 9

A_______ bus: an unclocked device that can run at its speed

Answer 9

Asynchronous bus

Question 10

This scheme is used to balance multiple requests with bus priority and fairness

Answer 10

Bus arbitration scheme

Question 11

USB stands for…..

Answer 11

Universal Serial Bus

Question 12

This is used when the devices are slower than the processor

Answer 12

I/O