PCI – Peripheral Component
Interconnect
• Specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral
devices to mainboard
• is common in modern PCs, displaced ISA and VESA
• Local Bus as the standard expansion bus,
– Appears in many other computer types
• Separate control system of bus and CPU + sent data
pass Bridge Circuit
• Succeeded by PCI Express,
– standard of most new computers, and other technologies.