The factors of a bus design are explained below__ Bus Design Bus types            (i) Dedicated            (...

Flash memory: Flash memory is a non-volatile memory chip used for storage and for transferring data between a personal computer (PC) ...

SRAM (Static RAM): The data is SRAM is stored based upon the state of the flip-flop used in the memory architecture, irrespective of...

RAID:   RAID means Redundant Array of Independent Disk. A disk array in which part of the physical storage capacity is used to store ...

Connection between the processor and the main memory: (i) PC: Program c...

Interrupt Cycle: In interrupt cycle, an interrupt can occur any time during the program execution. Whenever it is caused, a series o...

The characteristics of PCI bus system: (i)   Coupling of the processor and expansion bus by means of a bridge. (ii) 32-bi...

Register: In a computer, a register is one of a small set of data holding places that are part of a computer processor. A register ma...

There are different types of user visible registers. These are – (i) General purpose (ii) Data registers (iii)     ...

(i)   Instruction address calculation (iac):   Determine the address of the next instruction to be executed. Usually, this invo...

Relative addressing: Relative addressing is an address construction technique in which the operand field contains a relative addres...

Advantages: (i) Since all the address information need not be include in the instructions, instruction length is reduced. (...

Local bus: In computer architecture a local bus is a computer bus that connects directly, or almost directly, from the CPU to one or ...

Addressing mode:  Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs. Th...

To reference a large range of locations in main memory a variety of addressing technique are used. The direct, relative and register ad...