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Introduction To Computers: Lesson 4A
Introduction To Computers: Lesson 4A
Introduction to Computers
Decimal Number System
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Binary Number System
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Bit
A combination of binary digit
The smallest possible unit of data a
computer can recognize or use
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Byte
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Text Codes
EBCDIC
ASCII
Unicode
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CPU
manipulates data
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CPU’s Two Basic Parts
Control unit
Arithmetic logic unit
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Control Unit
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Arithmetic Logic Unit
logical operations
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Machine Cycle
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Machine Cycle’s Two Cycles
Instruction cycle
Execution cycle
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Instruction Cycle
Fetching
Decoding
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Execution Cycle
Executing
Storing
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Millions of Instructions Per
Second (MIPS)
The CPU performance measurement
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Pipelining
completed
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Memory
data quickly
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Two Kinds of Memory
Read-only memory (ROM): nonvolatile
Random-access memory (RAM):
volatile
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ROM
instructions
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RAM
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Other Kinds of RAM
Dynamic RAM (DRAM)
DRAM Variations
Static RAM (SRAM)
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Factors Affecting Processing
Speed
Registers
Memory and computing power
System clock
The bus
The databus
The address bus
Cache memory
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Bus Types
Industry standard architecture (ISA) bus
Local bus
Peripheral component interconnect
(PCI) bus
Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) bus
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
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Data Transfer Rate
second
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Cache memory
speed memory
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Lesson 4A