CS - Physical Components Flashcards

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Hardware

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Physical Components of a PC/CS

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Software

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Instructions and relevant data, stored in electronic format which instructs the computer to complete a task

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Computer System?

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A System of Components inside of a computer e.g. cpu gpu etc

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The five classical physical elements of a Computer System

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Control, Datapath, Memory, Input and Output

  • Processor: Control, Datapath
  • Storage: Memory
  • Devices: Input, Output

Classical meaning in this context - been used for many yrs.

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5
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Motherboard (Mobo)

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Platform for all Physical Components in a CS

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CPU (Central Processing Unit)

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The central processing unit
Can have multiple cores on a chip ex. Dual-Core, Quad-Core, Hexa-Core, Octa-Core
CPU is usual measured in GHZ, Giga :1*10^(9) Hertz
(1 Billion) Hertz

It contains the Arithmetic Logic Unit
(Handles all the calculations the CPU needs)

Works with cache memory (L1, L2, L3), RAM and Secondary Storage

Holds the calculations and data to be then processed in different components called registers.

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Why is this course useful for game development?

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Because we are sending instructions for the computer to process through by coding and we need to see how this works in a computer system/structure.

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What’s the difference between an OS and a CS?

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And OS/Operating system is a System that is used to operate the instructions send in by the computer system?

CS/Computer Systems is the structure of a computer. For ex. GPU, CPU, Motherboard, Memory etc.

OS is stuff windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, Apple you get the picture.

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Micro-Chip

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