Topics: Hardware : Buses
An electrical connection which allows two or more wires or lines to be connected together. Typically, all circuit cards receive the same information that is put on the Bus. Only the card the informations is "addressed" to will use that data. This is convenient so that a circuit card may be plugged in "anywhere on the Bus."
AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port
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EIDE
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics.
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EISA
In a computer a "bus" is an electrical channel for getting information and commands in and around the computer.
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Fibre Channel
A set of standards developed by ANSI. Fibre Channel (FC) is intended to provide a practical and inexpensive means of rapidly "transferring data between workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, desktop computers, storage devices, displays and other peripherals", according to the Fibre Channel Association (FCA).
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HIPPI
High Performance Parallel Interface In 1989, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratories began work on a standard for high-speed, point-to-point data transport between supercomputers.
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I2C
I2C (Inter-IC) is a multi-master bus.
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I2O
Known as Intelligent I/O.
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IEEE 1394
IEEE 1394, formerly FireWire. A 1995 Macintosh/IBM PC serial bus interface standard offering high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data services.
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MCA
Micro Channel Architecture
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PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
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PCI Express
Bus specification designed to supersede PCI. PCI Express (PCIe) provides several improvements over its predecessor: It enables Quality of Service (QoS) which is a means to prioritise more time critical traffic (like an audio or video stream) to reduce break up.
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PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association Standardizes packages for memory and input/output (modems, LAN cards, etc.) for computers, laptops, palmtops, etc.
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SCSI
SCSI is a "stand alone" independent communications channel. It can work with any operating systems such as Unix and all its versions, Microsofts Windows and so forth.
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USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB). A standard promoted by Intel for communication between an IBM PC and external peripherals over an inexpensive cable using biserial (in two rows or series)transmission.
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VME
Developed by Motorola, Signetics, Mostek and Thompson CSF, VersaModule Eurocard bus is a 32-bit bus.
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