Lesson33:ClockSpeedMeasurement

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ACTIVITY1
IdentifywhetherthestatementsareTRUEorFaLSE.

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FALSE

1.TheCPUreliesonasmallchipcalledthesystemclockto
synchronise,orcontrolthetimingof,allcomputeroperations.
2.OneGigahertzisequalstoonemillioncyclespersecond

3.Acomputerthatoperatesat933MHz(megahertz)has933
million(mega)clockcyclesinonesecond(hertz)
4.Oneprocessorrequiresonlyoneclockcycletocomplete
moremultiplicationinstructionthananotherprocessor
5.Thecombinationofspeedandnumberofpathsdetermines
thetotalprocessingspeedorchannelbandwidth.
6.100,000,000MHzisequivalentto1.0GHz.

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ACTIVITY2

Answerthesefollowingquestions.

1.Thisunitwhichequalsto1millioncyclespersecond=___________

2.One___________equalstoonebillioncyclesofthesystemclock.

3.A___________isonecyclepersecond

4.__________isthespeedaprocessorexecutesinstructions.

5.Ina_____________,thehighertheclockrate,thequickerdatagetsprocessed.

6.Thesmallestunitofclockmeasurementwhichdetermineshowmanycyclespersecondthe
microprocessorcanexecute.

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