Topic #4: Architecture and Organization (2) Flashcards
It uses the MSB as a sign bit to display a range of either positve numbers or negative numbers
Sign-and-Magnitude
The _____ sends data as a series of pulses along one or two data lines
Serial Ports
It defines the supported data types, the registers, the hardware support for managing main memory fundamental features (such as the memory consistency, addressing modes, virtual memory), and abstract model of a computer
Instruction Set Architecture
The _____ sends data as a single pulse along at least eight data lines
Parallel Ports
It is often used to represent decimal numbers in binary
Binary Coded Decimal
The ____ is the “brain” of the system and executes program instructions
Microprocessor
The ___ is a type of temporary memory that can be accessed faster than RAM
Cache
The number of tiimes per second that the image on a monitor is repainted is its
Refresh Rate
The intel processor line, colloquially referred to as _____, has followed a long, evolutionary development
x86
It is the mathematical operation on binary numbers, and is an example of a radix complement and is defined as its complement with respect to 2^N
2’s Complement
It is a continuation of the P6 Microarchitecture
Pentium Pro
It is developed by Advance Micro Devices (AMD), which is referred to as x86-64
AMD64
The processing required for a single instructuon is called an ___
Instruction Cycle
The ____ of a monitor tells us how clear the image is
Dot Pitch
First multi-core intel microprocessor, where multiple processors are implemented on a single chip
Core 2
