Local I/O Bus
Local I/O bus.
North Bridge and South Bridge. The North Bridge is the faster end of the hub containing the graphics and memory controller and connects to the system bus. The South Bridge is the slower end of the hub and contains the I/O controller hub. All I/O devices with the exception of display and memory are connected by the slower South Bridge.
The north and south bridge refer to the data channels to the CPU. The memory goes to CPU using the north bridge. And the mouse, keyboard, CD ROM, HDD, ext data flows to the CPU using the southbridge. The northbridge is the portion of the chipset HUB that connects faster I/O buses (for example, an AGP bus) to the system bus. Northbridge chip tends to be larger than the southbridge chip. The southbridge is the HUB that connects to slower I/O buses (for example, an ISA bus) to the system bus. The Northbridge and the Southbridge are known as the chipset on the motherboard. These set of chips collectively control the memory cache, external bus, and some peripherals. There is a fast end of the hub, and there is a slow end of the hub. The fast end of the hub is the Northbridge, containing the graphics and memory controller connecting to the system bus. The slower end of the hub is the Southbridge, containing the I/O controller hub.
The Southbridge, also known as an I/O Controller Hub (ICH) or a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) in Intel systems (AMD, VIA, SiS and others usually use 'southbridge'), is a chip that implements the "slower" capabilities of the motherboard in a northbridge/southbridge chipset computer architecture.The southbridge can usually be distinguished from the northbridge by not being directly connected to the CPU. Rather, the northbridge ties the southbridge to the CPU. Through the use of controller integrated channel circuitry, the northbridge can directly link signals from the I/O units to the CPU for data control and access.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_(computing)
Thehardware subsystemis the chipset.The chipset is basically what interconnects and controls the pathways between the processor, RAM, video, and other devices like the hard drive and network card.If acomputer processor, RAM, andvideo controllerwere major cities, then the hardware subsystem (chipset) would be the roads and traffic lights (the chipset controls traffic flow) that connect them together. Other things, like the hard drive, DVD drive, and USB would be like the suburbs because they have slower, indirect access to the processor, ram and video controller.
South Bridge
South Bridge
AnswerNo, technically its slower because the system has to interpret the signal and vice-versa.
"In this neck of the woods" just means "around here." A "neck" is a thin stretch of woodland that connects two larger areas."As a slower pace" just means slower.
use bank-switching, or (slower) a shift register.
The southbridge is a chip that connects thenorthbridge to other components inside the computer, including hard drives, network connections,USB and Firewire devices, the system clock, and standard PCI cards. The southbridge sends and receives data from the CPU through the northbridge chip, which is connected directly to the computer'sprocessor.
It's called an inhibitor