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Computer Hardware: Written By: Raees Ahmed
Computer Hardware: Written By: Raees Ahmed
WRITTEN BY:
RAEES AHMED
What is Hardware
The components of computer that can be seen and touched is
called computer hardware
Components of computer
hardware
Motherbord
Central processing unit
A graphic processing unit
Random access memory
Storage solid state drive
BASIC INPUT OUTPUT UNIT
Keyboard.
Mouse.
Microphone.
Bar code reader.
Graphics tablet.
Keyboard.
Mouse.
Joy Stick.
Light pen.
Track Ball.
Scanner.
Graphic Tablet.
Microphone
Motherboard
USB (Universal serial bus)
Parallel port
CPU Chip
RAM slots
Floppy controller
IDE controller
PCI slot
Ram
Ram stands for Random Access Memory
Short data lifetime.
Needs to be refreshed continuously.
Slower as compared to SRAM.
Used as RAM.
Smaller in size.
Less expensive.
Less power consumption.
Rom
Rom stands for Read Only memory
A ROM chip is used mainly in every computer
Non volatile
SRAM
SRAM offers a simple data access model and does not require a
refresh
DRAM
It provides higher density levels.
More data can be stored using DRAM.
Memory can be refreshed and deleted while a program is running.
Cache Memory
Cache memory is faster than main memory.
It consumes less access time as compared
to main memory.
It stores the program that can be executed
within a short period of time.
It stores data for temporary use.
A register is a temporary storage area built into a CPU
Data register DR Holds memory operand
Address register AR Holds address for the memory
Accumulator AC Processor register
Instruction register IR Holds instruction cod