UCBCSS1-Chipsets and Controllers

The major bus circuits that control and support the memory, AGP, and PCI buses.

• East Bridge

• South Bridge

• North Bridge

• West Bridge

Contains the controllers for Input/Output(I/O) devices, ATA/IDE and Serial ports.

• Sockets

• South Bridge

• North Bridge

• Controllers

Manage movement of data flow between the processor, memory, and peripherals by communicating with the device controllers.

• Memory Controller

• PCI Bridge

• Direct Memory Access

• Controller Chips

What does NIC stands for?

• New Interfacing Controller

• New Interface Card

• Network Interface Card

• Network Interface Controller

Responsible for reading and writing data to and from the main memory.

• Controller Chips

• Memory Controller

• PCI Bridge

• Direct Memory Access

Logically connects the PCI expansion bus on the motherboard to the CPU and other non-PCI devices. It acts like a network bridge that connects two different networks.

• Expansion Slot Bridge

• Direct Memory Controller

• PCI Bridge

• Controller Chips

Moves data into the memory without the help of the CPU.

• Controller Chips

• Direct Memory Access Controller

• PCI Bridge

• Memory Controller

CMOS memory stores the configuration settings of a PC.

What does CMOS stands for?

• Common Module Oxide Semiconductor

• Complex Module Oxide Semiconductor

• Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

• Convex Metal Oxide Semiconductor

Is a communicating system that moves data between different components of the computer.

• Local Bus

• AT Bus

• USB Bus

• Bus Architecture

Can be grouped into six categories that determines and differentiate one chipset from another.

• Memory Properties

• Arbitration Properties

• Power Management

• Chipset Properties