Lecture 7 Flashcards
1
Q
how are all the components connected on the motherboard
A
Buses (signal highways)
2
Q
what is a bus and what are the typical three types of buses
A
A bus is a bundle of conductors, wires, or tracks. Typically, there are address, data and control
buses, each including several signal lines
3
Q
how many items of data can a bus transfer
A
one
4
Q
two parts of CPU
A
ALU and Control Unit
5
Q
what are CPU register, give some examples of registers
A
–temporary store for data and address variables. Instruction Pointer (IP), Accumulator AX
