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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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For a keyboard or a monitor or a hard drive to work with a CPU, they must

communicate via some kind of physical connection. More than that, these

peripherals (usually) can’t connect directly to the CPU. This communication

requires a controller, a chip that connects the device to the CPU (see Figure

5-1).

Figure 5-1 A controller chip acts as an interface

Getting the CPU to communicate with a controller starts with some kind

of interconnection—a communication bus (that means wires) that enables the

CPU to send commands to and from devices. To make this connection, let’s

extend the data bus and the address bus throughout the motherboard,

connecting all of the computer’s controllers to the CPU (see Figure 5-2).

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