Name

_______Jeffrey______________________
Friday Sept. 11th 2009
Activity Sheet
Answer the following questions in the space provided.

1) What are the two units within the CPU?

ALU and CU

2) What is the purpose of the ALU? Give examples of the types of

operations performed by the ALU.

Performs arithmetic and logical operations

3) What is the purpose of the control unit?

Extracts instructions from memory and executes them

4) Fill in the blank: One basic instruction is completed in one

____clock cycle_____________________________.

5) Is a shorter clock cycle better or worse? Why?

Better because it is faster

6) Fill in the blank Computers are measured in cycles per second or

_____Clock speed_______________.

7) Mega is a prefix that means what?

1000000
 8) Giga is a prefix that means what?
1000000000
For the following questions:
Let P be the length of one clock cycle
Let R be the clock rate

9) What is the measure of a computer? (answer should be either P or R)

R

10) Write R in terms of P. (In other words, what is R = ?)

R = s/P

11)If the processor in your computer is 2 GHz, what is P (the length of one
clock cycle)?

60/2000000000 = 3e-8s

12) If the processor in your computer has a clock cycle length of P = 0.8
nanoseconds (0.0000000008 seconds), what is the clock rate of your
computer? (in other words, how fast is your processor?)
60/0.0000000008 = 75GHz