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Link buses link microprocessors to each other or a bridge. Communication takes place through ______, the advantage here being the lack of cycles.
packets
In an expansion slot bus, connectors allow for the insertion of I/O interface cards, also called expansion cards, hence the name. This type of bus is known as an ______.
expansion slot bus
Expansion buses enable a microprocessor board to have its own small I/O expansion board. It is a board-level bus that supports interrupt and transfer requests such as ______.
DMA
An I/O bus links one or more devices to one or several I/O controllers. An I/O bus can depend on a group of devices or it can be ______.
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A backplane bus enables the communication between connected electronic cards. It is the printed circuit board version of the ribbon cable. Parallel copper traces or serial traces link the slot connectors so that the daughterboards can be ______ in.
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Expansion slot bus connectors allow for the insertion of I/O interface cards, also called ______ cards.
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An I/O bus can depend on a group of devices, for example, for the interfaces of mass storage units ATA, in the parallel version (PATA for Parallel ATA), or series (SATA for Serial ATA), or it can be ______.
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A backplane bus enables the communication between connected electronic cards. It is the printed circuit board version of the ______ cable.
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Parallel copper traces or serial traces link the slot connectors so that the daughterboards can be ______ in.
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In order to minimize the distances between connectors, and therefore to decrease the total length of the bus, the 'centerplane' bus version was developed. It involves placing the connectors throughout the printed circuit ______.
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