A daughterboard is a circuit board meant to be an extension of another circuit board. It is also called a mezzanine board.
Daughterboard
A daughterboard plugs into a socket on the motherboard to provide a hardware function to the computer not already present in the motherboard or to replace a basic hardware function already provided by the motherboard with a more advanced and more powerful version of that function. Driver software will have to be installed that knows how to use the daughterboard capabilities (many daughterboards are compatible with the "plug and play" feature of modern OSs and the driver will be found and installed automatically, but others will still require manual installation of drivers provided by the daughterboard manufacturer).
1) In computers, the form factor (sometimes hyphenated as form-factor) is the size, configuration, or physical arrangement of a computer hardware object. The term is commonly used in describing the size and/or arrangement of a computer case or chassis or one of its internal components such as a daughterboard .
The motherboard is the base board into which the others connect. It is central to the function of the system interconnecting all the rest while the daughter boards typically provide functions non-essential to the system being logically functional (with the exception that sometimes a processor itself is on a daughterboard).
A shield is essentially a "daughterboard" of a PCB that has pins to match the female pin headers on a standard format Arduino board. You build your circuits/connections of sensors (switches, light, sound, temperature sensors, etc.) and outputs (LED's, displays, etc.) on a shield as an efficient way to mate the inputs/output connections to an Arduino board. A shield is not required but is highly advised as a way to insure solid connections and organization of connections. For more information see:
Random Access Memory (RAM) is physically connected to the motherboard by way of RAM slots in most cases. In some models of computers in the past (though I have not seen this configuration in well over a decade), the RAM was actually placed on a special card called a daughterboard that was installed in a dedicated (aka proprietary) slot on the motherboard. This was done to reduce the size of the motherboard itself and allow for a smaller footprint on one's desk.As for the logical "connection" of RAM, it is most commonly associated with the execution of applications, storage of data that is currently being manipulated (such as a Word document that one is currently composing), etc. This saves wear and tear on the mechanical hard drive and allows for faster access than a hard drive can provide. (Hard drive access times being measured in milliseconds while RAM access times are measured in nanoseconds. This equates to RAM being on the order of 1 million times faster.)If this does not answer your question adequately, feel free to drop me a line and I will be glad to assist further. I am always glad to help.
In an original motherboard, the entire product is manufactured by Intel, i.e. the circuit board and the ICs (integrated circuits) which are on it.Whereas, when we talk of a `chip set' it means some other company, for instance Mercury or D-Link, has designed and made the circuit board but has used the chipset provided by Intel.When we refer to a `chipset" it is a set of ICs that primarily controls the processor, memory and other main functionalities. However, the third-party company that has designed the circuit board can use other company chips for audio and other communication peripherals. The major point to note here is the design of the mainboard.The chipset consists of two major microchips. These are known as the North bridge and the South Bridge.The North Bridge Handles data for the AGP Port and the main memory which includes the FSB (Front side bus). Although both chips are required for the PC to work the North Bridge handles most of the very important tasks such as the connection between the CPU and main memory.The South Bridge handles data from the PCI and ISA slots and can also have integrated components such as Audio codec's etc.