Additional hardware components Flashcards
1
Q
Motherboard
A
circuit board to which all components of a computer are connected
buses take data from one part of the motherboard to another
CPU is fixed in it
2
Q
GPU
A
graphical processor unit
specialised chip and circuit board
helps processing when applications are using 3D graphics and animation
images on screen appear faster and smoother
3
Q
Sound card
A
sound from microphone etc as analogue data and converts to digital
or vice versa for output
4
Q
Embedded systems
A
combination of software and hardware created for a specific purpose
often mass produced
consist of a program on ROM or flash disc running a simple machine
