1.1 - The characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output and storage devices - Flashcards

CPU

Clock Speed

Registers

PC

MDR

MAR

CIR

ACC

General Purpose Registers

Buses

Data Bus

Address Bus

Control Bus

ALU

CU

Improving CPU performance

Von Neumann Architecture

Von Neumann Bottleneck

Harvard Architecture

Parallel Processing

Distributed Computing

SIMD

MIMD

RISC

CISC

RISC VS CISC

Input Device

Output Device

Storage Considerations

Optical Storage

Flash Storage

Magnetic Storage

Hybrid Drives

Virtual Storage

RAM

ROM

Cache Level Speeds