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A system bus is responsible for maintaining all communication between the Central Processing Unit (CPU), system peripherals and memories. The system bus operates with a certain bus protocol to exchange data between a bus master and a bus slave . The bus protocol ensures to isolate all other system devices from interfering the bus while the bus master exchanges data with a bus slave. Bus master initiates the data transfer, and sends or receives data from a slave device or a system memory. Bus slave, on the other hand, does not have the capability to start data transfer.
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Bindal, A. (2019). System Bus. In: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture and Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00223-7_4
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