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Monday, December 16, 2013

Difference Between 8 bit ISA, 16 bit ISA and EISA

Characteristics
ISA( 8 Bit)
ISA (16 Bit)
EISA
Acronym for
Industry Standard Architecture
Industry Standard Architecture
Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
Introduced In
1981
1984
1988
Introducer
IBM
IBM
Group of Nine Computer manufacturing Companies Led by Compaq(AST Research, Compaq Computer, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Olivetti, Tandy, WYSE, Zenith Data Systems)
Data Bus
8 Bits
16 Bits
32 Bits
Address Bus
De-multiplexed 20 Bit address Bus
24 Bit Address Bus
32 Bit Address Lines
Memory Addressability
1.048576 MB
Up to 16 MB
Up to 4GB
DMA Channels Supported
DRQ1, DRQ2 and DRQ3
DRQ1, DRQ2 ,DRQ3, DRQ0, DRQ5, DRQ6, DRQ7
DRQ1, DRQ2, DRQ3, DRQ0, DRQ5, DRQ6, DRQ7
Interrupts
IRQ2, IRQ3, IRQ4, IRQ5, IRQ6, IRQ7.
IRQ2, IRQ3, IRQ4, IRQ5, IRQ6, IRQ7, IRQ10, IRQ11, IRQ12, IRQ14, IRQ15. IRQ13 is not available to expansion bus and has been assigned to math Co processor. IRQ9 is wired to IRQ2 and that’s why there is no such interrupt line in ISA bus.IRQ8 has been assigned to RTC( Real Time Clock) of system and is not available in expansion bus
IRQ0 (Timer 0), IRQ1 (Keyboard), SRQ2 (cascading according to the second PIC in the AT), IRQ3 (COM 2), IRQ4 (COM 1), IRQ5 (LPT2), IRQ6 (Floppy Controller), IRQ7 (LPT1), IRQ8 (RTC), SRQ9 (Unused), IRQ10 (Unused), IRQ11 (Unused), IRQ12 (Unused), IRQ13 (Math Coprocessor), IRQ14 (hard Disk Controller), IRQ15 (Unused).
Interrupt Sharing
Not Supported
Not Supported
Supported
Clock Speed
4.77 MHz
6-8 MHz
8.33 MHz
Data Transfer Rate
4.77MBps
@8MHz =16.66 MB/sec
33.32 MB/sec transfer rate for bus masters and DMA devices(But wait state, interrupts and other protocols reduces the effective bandwidth by almost half)
Back Version Support
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Yes, also support 8 bit ISA
Yes Supports 8 Bit ISA , 16 Bit ISA and EISA
No. of Pins used
62
98
98 + 100 inlay (Total 198)
Interface

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