Give examples of a processor
Give examples of Main Memory
Give examples of secondary storage
Give examples of buses
What does the Central Processing Unit do?
Give facts about the RAM (Random Access Memory)
Give facts about the primary store
Give facts about the Secondary storeage
What are the two things that are connected together by the three buses?
What is a bus?
What does the data bus do?
What does the address bus do?
What does the control bus do?
State the name of the only uni-directional bus.
Describe the stored program concept
Give some upgrades you can have on the hardware
What does the CPU (central processing unit) consist of?
What does the arithmetic logic unit do?
What does the control unit do?
What is a register?
What is the effect on the processor performance when increasing the clock?
What is the effect on the processor performance when increasing the bus width?
What is the effect on the processor performance when increasing the word length?
What does having a 64-bit address bus mean?
Why does a limit have to be set on the clock speed?
What is a multiple core?
Why choose multiple cores?
What does an OPCODE represent?
What does an OPERAND represent?
Why choose assembly?
Advantages of using Hex
What is Hex used for?