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By Art Baker

ISBN-10: 0130204315

ISBN-13: 9780130204318

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In the case of a DMA device, find out if the DMA mechanism is bus master or bus slave, and whether there are any limitations on the range of physical buffer addresses it can use. DEVICE MEMORY If the device uses dedicated memory, find out how to access it. It could be mapped at a fixed physical location or there may be a register that must be initialized, pointing to the mapped address. Make Use of Hardware Intelligence Some peripherals contain their own processors that perform both diagnostic and device control functions.

Fortunately, Windows 2000 provides HAL functions to simplify access to configuration data. The HalGetBusData, HalSetBusData, and HalAssignSlotResources functions provide a simple way to access this data. USB: The Universal Serial Bus A consortium of companies (including Intel and Microsoft) developed the Universal Serial Bus specification. It was intended to provide a low-cost, medium-speed bus for such areas as digital imaging, PC telephony, and multimedia games. 1, and the list of member companies which participate in the consortium continues to grow.

For example, while the data bus width was widened to 32 bits, the clock rate remains at 8 MHz. The maximum transfer rate is only about 32 MB/sec. Also, since EISA sockets had to accept ISA cards, it was impossible to fix some electrical noise problems caused by the layout of ISA wiring. REGISTER ACCESS The EISA bus contains up to 15 slots or sockets. Each slot is assigned a fixed range of 4 KB I/O addresses, thus minimizing port resource conflict. 6 lists the I/O address ranges assigned to each socket.

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