What is Bus?
Bus is an electronic road along which signals are send from one part of the computer to another.
This lines you see on the Motherboard are the buses that take data, address, control signals and power from one pace to another on the Motherboard.
Depending on their use, bus is divided into three major types.
- · Data bus
- · Address bus
- · Control bus
When someone talks about the bus, without specifying its type, the most probably he is talking about the data bus.
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The data bus is used to move data from one place to another. The number of the data lines provided in the bus is very important factor that determines the speed of this data transfer.
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The address bus is used to select a particular memory location read or write the data. Maximum memory that CP can address depends on the size of its Address Bus.
· The control bus is used to send control and timing signals between various parts of the computer.
