In
computer architecture, A
control bus is (part of) a
computer bus, used by
CPUs for communicating with other devices within the computer. While the
address bus carries the information on which device the CPU is communicating with and the
data bus carries the actual data being processed, the control bus carries commands from the CPU and returns status signals from the devices. For example, if the data is being read or written to the device the appropriate line (read or write) will be active (
logic zero).