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This course provides you with a basic understanding of server bus architecture and various hardware technologies used to manage and maintain a server's up time.
Objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the various local bus interfaces and chipsets
- Explain bus mastering
- Discuss the various high-performance I/O interfaces
- List hardware technologies related to bus mastering
Topics:
- Local bus architectures and standards
- Server bus management
- PCI configuration
- PCI bus mastering and hot-swap technology
- Hot-plug PCI technology
- PCI-X
- PCI Express
- Hierarchical and peer PCI bus
- Intelligent input/output
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