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    The Parallel Bus Interface, or PBI, is a 50-pin port found on some XL models of the Atari 8-bit computers. It provides unbuffered, direct connection to...
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    Parallel SCSI (formally, SCSI Parallel Interface, or SPI) is the earliest of the interface implementations in the SCSI family. SPI is a parallel bus; there...
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    Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) or Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus (HP-IB) is a short-range digital communications 8-bit parallel multi-master interface bus specification...
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    Parallel ATA (PATA), originally AT Attachment, also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a standard interface designed for IBM PC-compatible...
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  • Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many variants) for synchronous serial communication, used primarily in embedded systems...
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    (see 1801 series CPU), the Q-Bus architecture is called МПИ (Магистральный Параллельный Интерфейс, or parallel bus interface). Its main difference is that...
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    distributed power. This excludes, as buses, schemes such as serial RS-232, parallel Centronics, IEEE 1284 interfaces and Ethernet, since these devices also...
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  • available in a variety of interfaces. The first was parallel SCSI (also called SCSI Parallel Interface or SPI), which uses a parallel bus design. Since 2005...
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    microcomputer module by a 50-conductor ribbon cable. There was also a parallel bus interface for general purpose I/O. Another popular monitor program for this...
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    or computer bus. This is in contrast to parallel communication, where several bits are sent as a whole, on a link with several parallel channels. Serial...
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    Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices, along with network printing using Ethernet and Wi-Fi connected printers. The parallel port interface was originally...
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    130XE includes the Enhanced Cartridge Interface (ECI), which is almost compatible with the Parallel Bus Interface, but physically smaller and located next...
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    serial bus and a communication protocol between the host, the source of the image data, and the device which is the destination. The interface is closed...
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  • General-purpose input/output (category Computer buses)
    which interfaces 24 GPIOs to a parallel communication bus, and various GPIO expander ICs, which interface GPIOs to serial communication buses such as...
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  • acid bisimide, also perylene bisimide or perylene diimide (PDI) Parallel Bus Interface, a 50-pin port found on some Atari 8-bit XL computers PBI Regional...
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  • Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction...
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    Low Pin Count (redirect from LPC bus)
    such as the BIOS ROM (BIOS ROM was moved to the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus in 2006), "legacy" I/O devices (integrated into Super I/O, Embedded...
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    Low-voltage differential signaling (category Computer buses)
    of all the combined single-ended channels. For example, a 7-bit wide parallel bus serialized into a single pair that will operate at 7 times the data rate...
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    DC300 tape drive in a single desktop case. They also include a GPIB parallel bus interface for controlling lab and test equipment as well as connecting to...
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    by chipsets to interface ISA to much faster CPUs. ISA was designed to connect peripheral cards to the motherboard and allows for bus mastering. Only...
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  • IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late...
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    and/or SATA connectivity. The term host bus adapter (HBA) may be used to refer to a Fibre Channel interface card. In this case, it allows devices in...
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    SATA (category Serial buses)
    SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives...
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  • long-term rates. Device interfaces where one bus transfers data via another will be limited to the throughput of the slowest interface, at best. For instance...
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    disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides an interface between the disk drive and the bus connecting it to the rest of the system. Early disk controllers...
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    A bus analyzer is a type of a protocol analysis tool, used for capturing and analyzing communication data across a specific interface bus, usually embedded...
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    Expansion card (redirect from Expansion bus)
    expansion cards to be placed above and parallel to the motherboard. Expansion cards allow the capabilities and interfaces of a computer system to be extended...
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    simply use their built-in parallel interface. The parallel interface has since been mostly displaced by local area network interfaces and USB 2.0. IEEE 1284...
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    complete system, and could be interconnected by a proprietary Oberheim parallel bus interface that pre-dated MIDI. With the company now gathering pace, from the...
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    Bus and Tag is an IBM standard for a computer peripheral interface, and was commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such...
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