Definitions (Primary)
What is the process by which the instruction is translated into signals the computer can execute.
Decoding
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
Cmos
A battery that gives power to the firmware
Use of the address bus
it is used to transfer information about where the data should reside in
advanced transfer cache
a type of L2 cache built directly on the processor chip. Processors that use ATC perform at much faster rates than those that do not use it
eCycling
Electronic recycling
READ ONLY MEMORY
Arithmetic logic unit: talk to me
Front side bus
connects the processor to main memory.
Clock speed
Firmware
Another word for Rom; contains permanently written data, instructions, or information such as a computer or mobile device’s start-up instructions
RDRAM
Rambus DRAM
What is the use of heat sink
Speaks for itself
Back side bus
connects the processor to cache.
How much is one gigahert in ticks of the system clock per second
one gigahertz (GHz) equals one billion ticks of the system clock per second.
Cache (Memory)
A temporary storage area used to speed up processing time instead of running a process again you take the data from here
SIMM
single inline memory
module
What is volatile memory
shame on you if you doh get that
expansion bus
allows the processor to communicate with peripheral devices.
What is an expansion slot
An expansion slot is a socket on a desktop or server motherboard that can hold an adapter card
Memory module
The home to Ram chips
SDRAM
Main memory
doh fry your brain now, i believe in you
What are all the buses connected to?
The motherboard
word size
the number of bits the processor can interpret and execute at a given time.