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The document discusses the system bus and its components. The system bus is a network of wires or electronic pathways inside a computer that connects the central processing unit (CPU) to other components. It consists of three main buses: the data bus transfers data, the address bus identifies memory locations, and the control bus carries status signals and control instructions. The size of the data and address buses determines how much information can be transferred at once and how much memory can be addressed.

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System Bus

The document discusses the system bus and its components. The system bus is a network of wires or electronic pathways inside a computer that connects the central processing unit (CPU) to other components. It consists of three main buses: the data bus transfers data, the address bus identifies memory locations, and the control bus carries status signals and control instructions. The size of the data and address buses determines how much information can be transferred at once and how much memory can be addressed.

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System Bus
The CPU sends various data values, instructions and information to all the devices and components inside the computer. If you look at the bottom of a motherboard you'll see a whole network of lines or electronic pathways that join the different components together. This network of wires or electronic pathways is called the 'Bus'.

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Bottom of Motherboard
System Bus

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Types of System Buses


Data Bus Address Bus

Control Bus

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Data Bus
A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another is called Data Bus. Data Bus can be thought of as a highway on which data travels within a computer.

This bus connects all the computer components to the CPU and main memory.

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Data Bus
The size (width) of bus determines how much data can be transmitted at one time.

E.g.:
A 16-bit bus can transmit 16 bits of data at a time.
32-bit bus can transmit 32 bits at a time.

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Address Bus
A collection of wires used to identify particular location in main memory is called Address Bus.

Or in other words, the information used to describe the memory locations travels along the address bus.

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Address Bus
The size of address bus determines how many unique memory locations can be addressed.

E.g.:
A system with 4-bit address bus can address 24 = 16

Bytes of memory.
A system with 16-bit address bus can address 216 = 64 KB

of memory.
A system with 20-bit address bus can address 220 = 1 MB

of memory.
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Control Bus
The connections that carry control information between the CPU and other devices within the computer is called Control Bus. The control bus carries signals that report the status of various devices.

E.g.:
This bus is used to indicate whether the CPU is reading

from memory or writing to memory.

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