STORING DATA
INSIDE THE PROCESSOR
STRUCTURE
OPTICAL MEDIA
LAB
100

THIS BASIC MEMORY OPERATION IS ALSO AN ACTION WHICH YOU CAN DO WITH A BOOK

WHAT IS READ?

100

THIS TYPE OF INSTRUCTION IS LOCATED IN THE INTERNAL MEMORY OF THE CONTROL UNIT (ROM)

WHAT IS A MICROINSTRUCTION?

100
THE COMPUTER MODEL WHICH USES THE SISD SYSTEM WAS NAMED AFTER THIS HUNGARIAN MATHEMATICIAN

WHO IS JOHN VON NEUMANN?

100

OPTICAL DISCS USE THIS AS THEIR SOURCE OF LIGHT

WHAT IS A LASER?

100

THIS THREE LETTER INSTRUCTION IS USED FOR SUBTRACTION

WHAT IS SUB?

200

THIS TYPE OF MEMORY FORGETS DATA AFTER THE COMPUTER GETS TURNED OFF

WHAT IS RAM (RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY)?

200

THIS COMPONENT, MADE UP OF TWO HALF-ADDERS, IS THE BASIC COMPONENT OF THE ALU

WHAT IS THE FULL-ADDER?

200

EDITORS, DEDICATED PROGRAMS, TRANSLATORS AND DEBUGGERS ARE ALL PART OF THIS AREA OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

WHAT IS SOFTWARE?

200

THE CAPACITY OF THIS OPTICAL MEDIA RANGES FROM 4.7 TO 17 GB

WHAT IS A DVD?

200

THIS COMPUTER PROGRAM CONVERTS BASIC INSTRUCTIONS INTO A PATTERN OF BITS

WHAT IS AN ASSEMBLER?

300

THIS CHARACTERISTIC OF A DISC IS CALCULATED BY MULTIPLYING THE NUMBER OF WORDS WITH THE NUMBER OF BITS INSIDE A WORD

WHAT IS CAPACITY?

300

THE SINGLE PRECISION IEEE NUMBER FORMAT OCCUPIES THIS MANY BITS

WHAT IS 32?

300

THIS DIGITAL DEVICE CAN FETCH INSTRUCTIONS FROM MEMORY, DECODE AND EXECUTE THEM, AND GIVE RESULTS

WHAT IS THE MICROPROCESSOR?

300

POLYCARBONATE, ALUMINIUM AND PROTECTIVE ACRYLIC ARE THE THREE LAYERS OF THIS TYPE OF CD

WHAT IS CD-ROM?

300

IF A HEXADECIMAL NUMBER STARTS WITH A LETTER, THIS DIGIT MUST BE ADDED BEFORE THE LETTER IN ORDER FOR THE CODE TO WORK

WHAT IS ZERO (0)?

400

THIS TECHNOLOGY IS USED TO CREATE A HARD DISC

WHAT IS MAGNETIC?

400

THIS MEMORY STRUCTURE OPERATES ON THE LIFO (LAST IN, FIRST OUT) PRINCIPLE

WHAT IS A STACK?

400

PIPELINE ARCHITECTURES BELONG TO THIS TYPE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE

WHAT IS MISD (MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION STREAM SINGLE DATA STREAM)?

400

THIS DVD SPEED IS KNOWN AS 1X

WHAT IS 1350KBPS?

400

THE RESULT OF SINGLE-ADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS IS STORED IN THIS TYPE OF REGISTER

WHAT IS THE ACC (ACCUMULATOR)?

500

THE MAGNETIC HEAD OF A HARD DISC IS ARRANGED ON THIS MOVING COMPONENT

WHAT IS THE ACTUATOR ARM?

500

THIS PART OF THE CONTROL UNIT HOLDS THE INSTRUCTION CURRENTLY BEING EXECUTED OR DECODED

WHAT IS THE INSTRUCTION REGISTER (IR)?

500

THE STATE OF HIGH-IMPEDANCE, IN WHICH THE OUTPUT IS DISCONNECTED, IS CONTROLLED BY THIS CONTROL SIGNAL

WHAT IS TSC (THREE-STATE CONTROL)?

500

THE CD-RW LAYER THAT CHANGES STATES IS IN THIS STATE WHEN THE MOLECULES ARE ARRANGED RANDOMLY AND DO NOT TRANSMIT LIGHT

WHAT IS THE AMORPHOUS STATE?

500

THIS TYPE OF ADDRESSING USES THE REGISTERS R0 AND R1

WHAT IS INDIRECT ADDRESSING?

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