LAYOUT OF THE SYSTEM BOARD AND INTERLEAVING
Wednesday, December 02nd, 2009 | Author: admin

The term interleaving refers to a process in which the CPU alternates communication between two or more memory banks. Every time the CPU addresses a memory bank, the bank needs about one clock cycle to reset itself. The CPU saves processing time by addressing a second bank while the first bank is reset. It improves the performance of the system by a considerable amount. The placement of memory modules on the system board has direct effect on the performance of the system. Since local memory holds all the vital data that the CPU needs for processing, the speed at which the data travels between memory and CPU affects overall system performance. The exchange of information between the CPU memory and processor are intricately timed so as to maximize performance by utilizing faster data transfer rates. Hence all the components must be laid out as close as possible to maximize speeds.

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