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INTRODUCTION
TO BUS
ADDRESS BUS, DATA BUS, CONTROL BUS
CONTENTS
COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
CPU
INTRODUCTION TO BUS
▪ Collection of wires through which data is transmitted
from one part of a computer to another is known as bus.
▪ It is an electrical or digital pathway through which bits
are transmitted between the various computer
components.
▪ The term bus refers to the internal bus of a computer
system. It is also known as communication pathways.
▪ In other words, bus is the channel which lets the parts of
a computer communicates with each other.
© Sagar Pokhrel, Faculty - CSITA, Prime College
INTRODUCTION..
▪ It is a bus that connects all the internal components to the
CPU and main memory.
▪ The size of a bus, known as width is important because it
determines how much data can be transmitted at one time.
▪ Buses transfer data in parallel.
▪ In a 32 bit bus, data are sent over 32 wires simultaneously.
▪ Every bus has a clock speed measured in MHz.
© Sagar Pokhrel, Faculty - CSITA, Prime College
SYSTEM BUSES
ADDRESS BUS
ADDRESS BUS
DATA BUS
DATA BUS
CONTROL BUS
▪ For example, one line of the bus is used to indicate whether the CPU is
currently reading from or writing to main memory. Others are I/O
Read/Write