Interconnection network topologies

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Interconnection network topologies

**Figure:** Bus
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Bandwidth? Contention?
Broadcast capability?
Arbitration/deadlock?
Ease of expansion

Examples:

VME, PCI, IEEE ``FutureBus'', USB, SCSI, Firewire,
Many small- and medium-scale shared-memory multiprocessors (SMPs)
Ethernet

(see http://www.techfest.com/hardware/bus.htm for more examples)