COMPSCI 1TA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Expansion Card, Serial Port, Ieee 1394

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: COMPSCI 1TA3
• Professor: John Nakamura

Document Summary

If the data is to be it into memory an address bus is used to direct it to the proper memory address. Expansion slots device to send or receive data from the data bus. A device called a hub is used to connect more devices. If a device cannot be connected to one of then expansion slot is used. Special circuit boards are inserted into the expansion slot and this will allow the i/o. On the expansion slot is some kind of port.