[system-track][comm]bus in computer

Internal buses, or local bus

e.g. parallel

• PCI (differenciate to PCI Express)
• Peripheral Component Interconnect

e.g. serial

• Serial ATA (SATA)
• connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.
• I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit)
• widely used for attaching lower-speed peripheral ICs to processors and microcontrollers in short-distance, intra-board communication
• PCI Express
• high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, common motherboard interface for PC graphics cards, hard drives, SSDs, Wi-Fi and Ethernet hardware connections.

External buses, or expansion bus

e.g. parallel

• pass

e.g. serial

• CAN bus, Controller Area Network
• RS-232

internal/external buses

• InfiniBand

• a computer networking communications standard used in HPC, for data interconnect both among and within computers, also used as either a direct or switched interconnect between servers and storage systems, as well as an interconnect between storage systems.

• SCSI

• Small Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices.

USB

• Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables and connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers.