1 / 16

Parallel Connections

This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab

garth-west
Download Presentation

Parallel Connections

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation • In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button • Select “Meeting Minder” • Select the “Action Items” tab • Type in action items as they come up • Click OK to dismiss this box • This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. Parallel Connections Michael Fromwiller CS 147 Spring 08 Dr. Sin-Min Lee

  2. Parallel Interfaces • Buses transfer data inside computers. • Monitors, printers, and other devices do not connect to the system bus. • External devices connect to interface circuits which are used to manage the connection. • Proper connections require the ability to send and receive data.

  3. Centronics Printer Interface • Multi-wire parallel link. • Transfers 8 bits of ASCII code simultaneously. • Typical speed: 100 kbytes/sec over10 meters. • Not considered a bus • Does not offer support for more than two devices.

  4. Centronics Printer Interface • Up to 8x faster than serial connections! … but suffers from “skew” Differences in wire resistances + Lots of wires Signal degradation, delays, and data corruption. Yuck. Low Skew High Skew

  5. Centronics Printer Interface • Three standards for this interface:

  6. Standard Parallel Port (SPP) • Software handles connection (slow) • Host sends important data (a print job, for example) to device. • Device sends status messages to the host: • Accepting data • Busy, try again later • Out of paper • Error found • Typical setup between devices for asynchronous handshaking.

  7. EPP and ECP Modes • Both offer bi-directional lines for data communication between device and host. • Important for Plug-and-Play process. • Hardware handles data transmission • Software writes data to port buffer • Hardware handles the rest (fast!)

  8. SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface • Fast asynchronous byte-wide bus(5 Mbytes/sec) connecting up to 8 devices • A secondary bus which relieves the traffic from the main bus. • Intended for: • Hard disk drives • CD-ROM drives • Tape units

  9. SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface • Variations of SCSI standards: • Fast SCSI • (10 Mbytes/sec synchronous transfer mode) • Wide SCSI • (40 Mbytes/sec with 32 bit data bus) • Useful for: • Multiple computers with shared drives • Multiple CD-ROM burners for mass production • Tape drives

  10. IDE – Intelligent Drive Electronics • Simplified version of the ISA bus. • Standard was quickly accepted. • Used by cheapest hard disk drives • Used by most common hard disk drives • Ribbon connections support two devices: • Master • Slave. • Plugs directly into the AT bus.

  11. AT / ISA bus • Appeared around the time the Intel 8088 processor came out. • Ran at 4.77 Mhz • Later topped off at 8.33 Mhz • Faster processors would wait till the ISA bus was finished, affecting speed. • Pentium CPUs made the speed difference clear. • Extended ISA (EISA) clocked at 33 Mhz, but was overshadowed by the new PCI bus.

  12. PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnection • PCI bus isolated from main bus by a “bridge” device, such as the i82443. • “North Bridge” • Handles PCI components • “South Bridge” • PCI to ISA bridging device, such as the i82371 • Development of the mini-PCI was brought about by laptop computers, for PC add-ons.

  13. PCI – Peripheral Component Interconnection • PCI bus operates in two modes: • Multiplexed Mode • A single 32 bit bus that is shared by address and data information. • Increased bus width, but reduced data rate. • Burst Mode • Same idea as EDO DRAM. After one address has been sent, several data items follow in quick succession. • Bridge is capable of assembling these “packets” of data and bursting it to the PCI bus when ready.

  14. Plug-and-Play • Introduced by Microsoft. • Main purposes: • Allow computer to auto-configure hardware. • Simplify hardware installation. • Make the PC more user friendly … • “Released” with Windows 95. • Fully supported by Windows 2000/XP.

  15. PCMCIA – Personal Computer Memory Card International Association • Credit card sized • Originally intended for memory expansion for laptops. • Designed for “hot swapping.” No need to turn off or reboot laptops. Just pop and go! • Manufacturers took it a lot further: • Modems and Ethernet interfaces • Video cards • Parallel ports • Disk drives • Pretty much anything!

  16. Sources • All information from this presentation can be found in:Computer Systems Architecture – A Networking ApproachRob Williams. Chapter 11 • “Low and high skew” images: • http://www.spectra-strip.amphenol.com • “Parallel printer cable” image: • http://www.nuggetlab.com/comptia_files/equipment/cable_Parallel%20Cable%20showing%2025-pin%20end.jpg • “SCSI ribbon cable” image: • http://www.qvs.com/prodimages/SCU160-4T_LR.jpg • “IDE ribbon cable” image: • http://www.cable-house.com/images/cables/internal%20cables/ide_ata133_ribbon_cable.jpg • “Granny with computer” image: • http://www.boston.com/business/blog/filter/momtechsupport.jpg • “PCMCIA card” image: • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Pcmcia-type-ii-and-iii.jpg

More Related