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Accessing I/O Devices and Interrupts by Shashank Nandan is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the organization and access of I/O devices in computer systems, explaining how devices communicate through an interconnection network and are accessed via memory-mapped I/O. It also covers the concept of interrupts, which allow devices to signal the processor when they are ready, improving efficiency by reducing the need for continuous polling. Additionally, the document introduces pipelining as a method to enhance performance by overlapping instruction execution in modern processors.
- Author
- Shashank Nandan
- Language
- EN