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Week 5
Week 5
College of Education
GE ELECT 1: Living in the IT Era
2nd Semester of A.Y: 2020-2021
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System Unit
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FM reception
No. Components Functions
1. Input/Output A port is the point at which a peripheral attaches to a system unit so that
the peripheral can send data to or receive information from the computer.
port
An external device, such as a keyboard, monitor, printer, mouse and
(I/O port) microphone is often attached by a cable to a port on the system unit.
The back of the system unit contains so many ports. Some newer personal
computers also have ports on the front of the system unit.
3. Reset button Kick of soft boot, instructing the computer to go through the process of
shutting down, which would clear memory and reset devices to their
initialized state. It simply removes power immediately.
4. Motherboard Main circuit board of the system unit, which has some electronic
components attached to it and others built into it.
5. Power Supply Convert standard electrical power into the form that computer can use. If
a power supply is not providing the necessary power, the computer will not
function properly.
6. DVD- A device that reads DVD-ROM, also can read audio CDs, CDROMSs, CDRs
ROM drive and CD-RWs.
7. CD-ROM A device that reads audio CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
drive
8. DVD/CD-RW It is a combination drive that reads DVD and CD media, it also writes to
CD-RW media. This drive also allows watching a DVD or burn a CD.
drive
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9. Zip drive A high-capacity disk drive that reads from and writes on a Zip disk.
10. Floppy drive A device that reads from and writes on a floppy disk
11. Hard disk drive Type of storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular
platters that store data, instructions and information. Also called a hard
disk.
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Motherboards
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CPU:Microprocessor
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Principal components of a CPU include the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that performs arithmetic and
logic operations, processor registers that supply operands to the ALU and store the results of ALU
operations, and a control unit that orchestrates the fetching (from memory) and execution of instructions
by directing the coordinated operations of the ALU, registers and other components.
Processor Size
Modern microprocessors are often described as being 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit or 64 bit processors. This
description is somewhat ambiguous, since it can refer to (and has been used to refer to) either the number
of lines in the data bus (how many bits can be transferred simultaneously) or the number of bits in the
address bus (describing the potential amount of memory for the computer) or the number of bits in one
of the processor’s registers (how many bits can be processed simultaneously) At the moment, most
personal computers have 64 bit processors (in all senses of the term.) Some microprocessors are
described as being dual core or quad core (and probably higher number core by now.) These processors
have essentially two or four (or more) processing units built into a single CPU chip, allowing the
computer to process data faster by doing several things at the same time.
Processor Speed
There are several common measures of how fast processors operate:
Hertz (or megahertz or gigahertz.) This describes the clock speed of the processor This gives a
rough (and not very accurate) description of how fast the processor processes data. It is not a very
accurate measure of how fast a processor operates because different operations require different
numbers of clock pulses, so different programs (using different instructions) will yield different
results.
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MIPS (million instructions per second) which actually describes how fast the processor executes
instructions. This measure is more accurate, but can also be misleading, again, because some
FLOPs (FLOating point Operations Per second, usually seen as gigaflops) Most commonly used
Classes of Processors
There are two classes of processors – RISC and CISC
√ Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) is a CPU design strategy based on the insight that
a simplified instruction set can provide higher performance. The simplified instruction set
√ Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) is a CPU design strategy based on the idea that
with a larger, more complex instruction set, programs can be written using fewer instructions,
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Exercise
Assessment
Reflection
Reflection will be posted in Google Classroom
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