Transcript Plug-and-Play-by-Kyle-Cook-Andrew-Drayer-Adam-Imbert

Plug and Play
Andrew Drayer
Kyle Cook
Adam Imbert
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Introduction
• First produced by Microsoft, Intel, and a
consortium of other companies.
• Revealed to public in Microsoft’s Windows
95 OS.
• The goal of Plug and Play is to simplify the
installation of hardware devices.
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Components
• Devices
• System BIOS
• Operating System
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Plug and Play BIOS
• IRQs
• DMAs
• I/O
• Memory Addresses
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Operating Systems
• Configuration Manager
• Enumerators
• Device Drivers
• Resource Arbitrators
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Plug and Pray
• “Legacy” ISA Devices
• System Resource Conflicts
• Solutions
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Overview
• Plug and Play is an innovation that has
become a standard in the modern
computer industry
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