2016-10-11
SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYSOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
FALL 2016FALL 2016
DR. MAO AihuaDR. MAO Aihua
ahmao@scut.edu.cnahmao@scut.edu.cn
How the I/O work?
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General Description of I/O
Wide variety of peripherals ?
DeliveringDelivering different amountsdifferent amounts of dataof data
At different speeds
In different formats (bit depth, etc.)
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General Description of I/O
Wide variety of peripherals
AllAll sllower ththan CPU CPU an d RAMd RAM
Need I/O modules, which not simply wire a
device to the bus, but contains logic for
performing a communication between them
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Closing the Gap
Need I/O modules to act as bridge between
processor/memory bus and the peripheralsprocessor/memory bus and the peripherals
Device
Interface External
I/O sensors
Processor Bus Module Device and
Interfface
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