THE CORE Flashcards
____ contains and protects electronics of the computer or mobile device from damage
The case
______ is the main circuit board of the computer
Motherboard
____ contains integrated circuits
Computer chip
____ interprets and carries out basic instructions that operate a computer
processor aka as control processing unit (cpu)
A single chip with two or more separate processing units is called
multi-core processor
Name the components of a cpu
control unit and arithmetic logic unit
The___ is the component of the processor that controls most operations in the computer including direction and coordination of the operations
control unit
The ____ part of the processor performs arithematic, comparison and other operations
arithematic logic unit
What are the functions of the CPU?
-interprets and executes instructions
-performs arithmetic and logical functions
-communicates with the rest of the computer system
What is a machine cycle performed by the CPU ?
The cpu performs the machine cycle in 4 steps and performs it every time there is an instruction to the computer;
1. Fetching the instruction is done by the control unit from the instructions and the data
2. The control unit then decodes the instruction and sends to ALU
3. ALU performs the calculations
4. Results are stored inmemory
The processor contains_____that holds the data and instructions temporarily
Registers
______ determines the speed of the system
system clock
how is the clock speed measured
gigahertz
examples of thr lead processor chips manufacturers
Intel and AMD
How to protect the processor chip from malfuctioning or failing due to heat
Additional healing technology: heating sink, liquid cooling technology and cooling pads
