A basic description of the expansi

1. Expansion Slot
• Socket on the motherboard that can hold an adapter
card

2. Adapter Card
• Expansion Card
• Circuit board that enhances functions of a
component of the system unit and provideos
connections to peripherals

3. Peripheral
• Device that connect to the system unit
• Controlled by processor in the computer
• Eg: Modems, disk drivers, printers , scanner, keyboard

4. Sound Card
• Enhance the sound generating capabilities
• By allowing sound to be input through a microphone
and output through external speaker and
headphones

5. Video card
• Called a graphics card
• Converts computer output into a video signal
• Travel through cable to monitor,display the image on
the screen

6. Removable Flash Memory
• Hot plugging
• Insert and remove the removable flash memory while
computer is running
• Eg: Memory cards, USB flash drive, PC
Cards, ExpressCard module

7. Memory Card
• Removable flash memory device
• Insert and remove from a slot in a personal
computer, game console, mobile device, card
reader
• smart phones, digital cameras ,portable
media player

8. USB flash drive
• Plug in a USB port on a computer or mobile device

9. PC Card Slot/Expansion Card
Slot
• Hold a PC Card or an ExpressCard module

10. PC Card
• Thin, credit card-sized removable flash memory
device
• Enable traditional notebook computers and Tablet
PCs to access the Internet wirelessly

11. ExpressCard module
• Adds memory, communications, multimedia, and
security capabilities to computer

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