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  2. Expansion card - Wikipedia

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    The CardBus expansion card standard is an evolution of the PC card standard to make it into a compact version of the PCI bus. The original ExpressCard standard acts like it is either a USB 2.0 peripheral or a PCI Express 1.x x1 device. ExpressCard 2.0 adds SuperSpeed USB as another type of interface the card can use.

  3. Adapter (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An adapter card or expansion card is a circuit board which is plugged into the expansion bus in a computer to add function or resources, in much the same way as a host bus adapter (see above). [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Common adapter cards include video cards , network cards , sound cards , and other I/O cards.

  4. PCI-X - Wikipedia

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    Style. Parallel. Hotplugging interface. Optional. PCI-X, short for Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended, is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI local bus for higher bandwidth demanded mostly by servers and workstations. It uses a modified protocol to support higher clock speeds (up to 133 MHz), but is ...

  5. Plug and play - Wikipedia

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    ISA PnP or (legacy) Plug & Play ISA was a plug-and-play system that used a combination of modifications to hardware, the system BIOS, and operating system software to automatically manage resource allocations. It was superseded by the PCI bus during the mid-1990s. The PCI plug and play (autoconfiguration) is based on the PCI BIOS Specification ...

  6. Peripheral Component Interconnect - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) [3] is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor 's native bus. Devices connected to the PCI bus appear to ...

  7. PCI configuration space - Wikipedia

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    PCI devices have a set of registers referred to as configuration space and PCI Express introduces extended configuration space for devices. Configuration space registers are mapped to memory locations. Device drivers and diagnostic software must have access to the configuration space, and operating systems typically use APIs to allow access to ...

  8. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    A technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. [1] device memory. local memory associated with a hardware device such as a graphics processing unit or OpenCL compute device, distinct from main memory.

  9. ExpressCard - Wikipedia

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    Originally developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (), the ExpressCard standard is maintained by the USB Implementers Forum ().The host device supports PCI Express, USB 2.0 (including Hi-Speed), and USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) [2] (ExpressCard 2.0 only) connectivity through the ExpressCard slot; cards can be designed to use any of these modes.