Showing posts with label why multibus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label why multibus. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Explain why multibus hierarchies are required?

If large number of devices are connected to the single shared bus , performance will suffer. There are following problems

1>Bus length is longer. Therefore propagaton time is more. This propagation dealy can affect performance. When control of the bus passes from one device to another frequently


2>The bus may become bottleneck as aggreagate data transfer demand approaches the capacity of bus. Because data rate generated by attached deviceslike graphics and video controller are growing rapidly

3>Only one master bus can operate at a time, other waits. To overcome this problem most computer system use multiple buses, generally laid out in hierarchy.