Match each bus to what it carries
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Data bus
- Right
- The data itself, moving in both directions
- Left
- Address bus
- Right
- The memory location the CPU wants to use
- Left
- Control bus
- Right
- Read and write signals between components
- Instructions
- Tap a bus on the left, then tap what travels on it.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus CS XI Ch1 Computer System, 1.4 Data Transfer between Memory and CPU_