diff --git a/Hardware/Bus.md b/Hardware/Bus.md index 0520392..7bbc4b2 100644 --- a/Hardware/Bus.md +++ b/Hardware/Bus.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- tags: - - Electronics - Hardware + - motherboard --- # Bus diff --git a/Hardware/Chipset_and_controllers.md b/Hardware/Chipset_and_controllers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35823c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Hardware/Chipset_and_controllers.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +tags: +- Hardware +- memory +- motherboard +--- + +# Chipset and controllers + +A **controller** is simply a circuit that controls a process. The **chipset** is a combination of controllers placed on the same piece of silicon. + +The chipset manages the data flow between the different components that comprise the [motherboard](/Hardware/Motherboard.md): processor, [memory](/Hardware/Memory/RAM_types.md), [harddisk](/Operating_Systems/Disks/What_are_disks.md) and peripherals. + +Buses run in and out of the chipset into these key motherboard components. The main chipset is a kind of junction that sits between the memory and CPU through which the [system bus](/Hardware/Bus.md#system-bus) passes. + +The chipset is sometimes called the "glue" or "traffic controller" of the motherboard or _an intelligent intersection of buses_. diff --git a/Hardware/Memory/RAM_types.md b/Hardware/Memory/RAM_types.md index c7c95c6..9a67cd1 100644 --- a/Hardware/Memory/RAM_types.md +++ b/Hardware/Memory/RAM_types.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ --- tags: - - memory +- Hardware +- memory +- motherboard --- # Memory diff --git a/Hardware/Memory/Role_in_computation.md b/Hardware/Memory/Role_in_computation.md index e69de29..b40e8b9 100644 --- a/Hardware/Memory/Role_in_computation.md +++ b/Hardware/Memory/Role_in_computation.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +tags: +- Hardware +- memory +--- + +# The role of memory in computation + +The following steps outline the way in which memory interacts with the processor during computational cycles, once the [bootstrapping](/Operating_Systems/Boot_process.md) process has completed and the OS kernel is itself loaded into memory.