Motherboard Posted by shariq shukur , Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, in

Motherboard description

Motherboard is the main circut board of a microcomputer. The connectors in the motherboard are used to attach additional peripherals. A motherboard mainly consist of Central Processing Unit (CPU) , Basic Input Output Stream (BIOS) , Memory , Mass Storage Interfaces , Serials Ports , Parallel Ports and other controllers to control other external devices namely Monitor , Keyboard , Mouse , Printers , Disk Drives. Every Integrated chip has its own slot. Every chip on the mother board is collectively known as "chipset".

Motherboard Functioning

Many changes have undergone in the design of motherboard from the time of invention. The Functional entity, Performance entity , Physical entity have much improved in the day-to-day motherboards. The motherboard now a days consist of the following aspects.

1 .Microprocessors are better and faster.
2 .Components in microprocessor are faster and smaller.
3 .Microprocessors have improved techniques for the bus structures.
4 .Microprocessors uses chipsets for logical support.
5 .Users can get additional facilities and functions with new microprocessors.
6 .Motherboard consist of additional device controllers and i/o interfaces.
7 .The main features of a motherboard is reliability and maintainability.