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Computer Subsystems - The internal bus architecture
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Computer Subsystems. Task 1 a) The internal bus architecture It is a collection of wires, which the data is transmitted from one part to the other. The internal bus connects all the internal computer components to the CPU and main memory. There are two parts of any bus these are an address bus and the data bus. The size of the bus is measured in width. This is important because it determines the amount of data being transmitted. For example a 16 bit bus can transmit 16 bits of data. Nearly all the PC's today include a local bus for which is needed for faster processing for things such as video data. b) ALU ALU stands for Arithmetic-Logic Unit this part of the CPU this part carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in the computer instruction words. In some CPU's the ALU is split in to the separate Arithmetic unit and...
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