If you've been around in the computing space for some time, you'll surely remember at least a few of these legacy PC ...

The Coast Guard will be using Astronics Corporation’s new NG3 Avionics I/O Computers for its Minotaur program, according to a March 24 press release. The computer will connect to avionics systems on ...

The transfer of data to and from peripheral devices in Windows PCs. The first PCs used port-mapped I/O (PMIO) addressing, which used an address space separate from main memory to read and write ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

What is an input/output (I/O) ring, and why should I care about it? If you’re a system-on-chip (SoC) designer, you had better know the answer to that question. SoCs are the darlings of the ...

An application that reads and/or writes a large amount of data. The performance of such an application depends on the speed of the computer's peripheral devices. See I/O bound. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...