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    Chapter 5. 5.0—Server Bus Architectures

    5. 5.0—Server Bus Architectures

    Terms you’ll need to understand:

    ✓Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
    ✓Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
    ✓MicroChannel Architecture (MCA)
    ✓Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA)
    ✓VESA Local Bus (VLB)
    ✓Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
    ✓Universal Serial Bus (USB)
    ✓Northbridge and Southbridge
    ✓Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)
    ✓Super-I/O
    ✓Front Side Bus (FSB) and Back Side Bus (BSB)
    ✓Expansion slot
    ✓Data bus and Address bus
    ✓Bus-master
    ✓Plug-and-play (PnP)
    ✓Hot swap
    ✓Bandwidth
    ✓Interrupt lines
    ✓Signaling levels
    ✓Hot-Plug PCI
    ✓PCI Extended (PCI-X)
    ✓Throughput
    ✓Double Data Rate (DDR) and Quad Data Rate (QDR)
    ✓Error Correcting Code (ECC)
    ✓PCI Express (PCIe)
    ✓Arapahoe
    ✓Isochronous data transfer
    ✓Form factor
    ✓Server I/O Module (SIOM)
    ✓Bottleneck
    ✓Fault tolerance
    ✓Hierarchical and Peer PCI buses
    ✓Intelligent Input/Output (I2O)


    Techniques you’ll need to master:

    ✓Using software utility programs
    ✓Recognizing various bus interfaces, the reasons they were developed, and the differences between them
    ✓Explaining the use and technique of bus-mastering
    ✓Calculating the data throughput for a given processor
    ✓Explaining the development of the AGP port
    ✓Listing the features of the super-I/O controller
    ✓Understanding how ISA cards disrupt the plug-and-play process
    ✓Knowing the operating parameters of all proposed server components
    ✓Knowing which factors limit the maximum number of server board slots
    ✓Understanding how dual-voltage PCI expansion cards operate
    ✓Plugging hot-swap cards into the PCI system
    ✓Defining the hot-plug PCI hardware standard
    ✓Identifying the PCI-X 2.0 standard
    ✓Explaining PCI-X 266 and PCI-X 533 voltage signals
    ✓Listing PCI Express implementations
    ✓Describing the hierarchical PCI bus



      

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