NT1110 Unit 4 Research Paper

Student NT1110

Abstract

Components and technology of today’s computer motherboards. This paper will give a brief description of chipsets, Motherboard bus’s, & Component Integration.

NT1110 Unit 4 Research Paper

The chipset on today’s computers is responsible for managing the flow of information between the CPU, Memory, & the Peripherals. Chipsets are usually deigned to work with a specific family of microprocessor such as Intel or AMD. Mother board Buses can be broken down into two different types, the first type is the internal bus. The internal bus is easily recognized by the gold lines of wire that run throughout the motherboard. The external buses are the slots filled with pins on the motherboard. Both types of bus are basically the lines of communication for the mother boar. There are six major types of external buses on a common motherboard, only a few of these are found on the mother board of a home PC, they are PCI, AGP, USB, & IDE. The external Buses connect to the Internal bus via the pins in there Appropriate slots, those pins transfer the information from the external buses to the internal bus and then to the final destination. The final topic of this paper is component Integration, component integration has eliminated the need for individual component hard ware and the heat they produce. The elimination of those two things has enabled the manufacturers to reduce the size of today’s computers enabling the development of today’s laptops and other portable computing devices.

Referances 1) Class notes 2) www.waterwheel.com/guides/motherboards_bus