Processor
It is the electronic circuit responsible for executing the instructions of a computer program.
What is CPU/Central Processing Unit?
The memory sometimes referred to as primary or main memory.
What is RAM?
The type of signals a sensor produces.
What is Analog?
A list of instructions that enable a computer to perform a specific task.
What is program/computer program?
An environment for the user to interact with the machine. It is either graphical or text-based.
What is UI/User Interface?
They are high-speed storage areas in the CPU. All data must be stored in here first before it can be processed.
What is a register?
Off-Line storage, an optical disc which can hold 4.7 GB of data.
What is Dvd-Rom?
A component of a machine that is responsible for moving and controlling a mechanism or system, for example switching on lights.
What is the Actuator?
Written in a form that is close to our human language, enabling a programmer to just focus on the problem being solved.
What is High-level programming language?
It supplies an interface for the user and important utilities for managing the computer.
What is an Operating System?
This particular architecture design consists of a Control Unit, Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU), Memory Unit, Registers and Inputs/Outputs.
What is Von Neumann Model?
Computer’s main memory, which is directly accessible by the CPU and often much faster than secondary storage.
What is Primary Memory/Storage?
This sensor sets off an alarm when a burglar steps on a particular zone.
What is a Pressure sensor?
The lowest level of a programming language that consists of binary instructions which can be executed by a processor.
What is Machine Code/Language?
The manager in an operating system that tells the processor what it needs to be doing at any moment in time.
What is Processing Manager?
The order of steps that the Central Processing Unit (CPU) uses to follow instructions.
What is Fetch-Execute Cycle?
Non-volatile storage that can be easily removed from the computer. This is often used to transport data and keep backups for protection.
What is Off-line storage?
Receives a digital input from ADC and it compares measured values with stored values or pre-set values.
What is a Microprocessor?
Low-level programming language in which there is a very strong correspondence between the program's statements and the architecture's machine code instructions.
What is Assembly Language?
This manager Sets up a table to keep track of who is using which section of memory in a multiuser environment.
What is Memory Manager?
It connects the major components of a computer system, combining the functions of a data bus to carry information, an address bus to determine where it should be sent, and a control bus to determine its operation.
What is System Bus?
A memory feature which means the memory requires power to maintain the stored information.
What is Volatile Memory?
It converts analogue signals (data) acquired by a sensor into digital and transmits them to the microprocessor.
What is Analog Digital Converter?
The form of code produced when an interpreter or a compiler translates source code into recognizable and executable machine code.
What is Object Code?
A signal that is sent to the computer processor to stop the processor momentarily while it decides which task it should perform next.
What is Interrupt Request/IRQ?