Background: I/O Subsystem Bottlenecks
New I/O buses are typically developed in response to changing system requirements and to promote lower cost implementations. Current-generation I/O buses such as PCI are rapidly falling behind the capabilities of other system components such as processors and memory. Some of the reasons why the I/O bottlenecks are becoming more apparent are described below.
Server Or Desktop Computer: Three Subsystems
A server or desktop computer system is comprised of three major subsystems:
Processor (in servers, there may be more than one)
Main DRAM Memory. There are a number of different synchronous DRAM types, including SDRAM, DDR, and Rambus.
I/O (Input/Output devices). Generally, all components which are not processors ...
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