Flashcards
Computer Hardware
Cards in this deck (6)
- 1CPU Central Processing Unit- brain of the computer
- microprocessor
- uses fetch execute cycle - 2Control Unit- manages execution of instructions
1 decide which instruction and fetch from memory
2 decode instruction
3 execute instruction - 3The Arithmetic and Logic Unit- process data that requires calculations
- logical comparisons to assist decision making
- and or not - 4Immediate Access Store- main memory
- Stores programs and data while in use - 5Fetch Execute Cycle- number of registers in CPU
- high speed memory locations - 6Program Counter- stores memory location reference of next instruction to be fetched