Department of Computer Scien

ce and Information Engineering

National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

HANEL

INSIDE THE COMPUTERInternal Organization of Computers(cont’)

‰The CPU is connected to memory and I/O through strips of wire called a

bus

¾Carries information from place to place

ƒAddress busƒData busƒControl bus

CPU Read/Write

RAM

Address busROM Data bus

Printer

Disk

Monitor

Keyboard

Control bus