CPU Flashcards

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1
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What does the CPU stand for?

A

Central Processing Unit

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What are the three main parts of the CPU?

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The Control unit, The Arithmetic Logic Unit, The cache

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What does the CPU do?

A

Processes all of the data and instructions

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What are the three main factors that determine the CPU Power?

A

Clock speed, number of cores and Cache size

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What does the control unit do?

A

Executes program instructions by following the fetch-decode- execute cycle

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What does the ALU do?

A

handles all the calculations in the CPU

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7
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What are the characteristics of Cache memory?

A

very fast, low capacity, very expensive

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What does Cache memory do?

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Stores regularly used data so that the cpu can access it quickly

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What is the Von Neumann Design?

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runs programs stored in the memory. Programs consist of data which are stored in memory addresses

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