Computer hardware

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What is hardware
physical components of the computer
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What is the ALU
It is the arithmetic logic unit
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What does the ALU do
It carries out all of the arithmetic and logical operrations
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What does the control unit do`
It uses electrical signals to control the flow of data within the CPU
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What does the CPU's speed depend on?
The clock speed, cache memory and the number of pocessors cores
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What is the clock speed measured in?
Hertz
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What are processors speeds measured in
gigahertz
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What is RAM?
Random access memory
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What is ROM?
Read only memory
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State the fetch execute cycle
Fetch an instruction from memory, decode the instruction to find out what processing to do, execute the instruction
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