EISA System Architecture

by Don Anderson and Tom Shanley

The Extension to Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) standard specifies a means of designing hardware that handles the internal communications and data exchange within a personal computer, and is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020140995X
• ISBN13: 9780201409956
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Some Useful Information Here

This book is the 2nd book in Mindshare PC System Architecture Series. It assumes that the reader has already read the 1st book in the series, which is "ISA System Architecture". The book has some usefull information. The one that I found most useful are: 1. How the different peripherals in your PC share a single interrupt without causing conflict. 2. More than one Bus Masters can request the use of the bus at the same time. The job of the Bus Arbriter is to prioritize these different Bus Masters. 3. The limitation of ISA Address Decoder which force EISA Address Decoder not to use certain range of address. Otherwise, it will cause conflict between ISA and EISA peripherals. 4. Different types of buses in an EISA system and how they interact with each other. 5. How the PC identify what kind of EISA expansion cards currently sitting in each EISA expansion slots. Despite all these useful information, I found that the last chapter, chapter 12 (EISA Chipset), which takes about one third of the book, as very confusing and boring. Nevertheless, this is still a good book to read if you want to learn PC system architecture. Since this book is out of print, the publisher, Mindshare, decided to post the free PDF version on their website.