CPU terms

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  • Created on: 01-10-18 21:34
Does mathmatical and logical operations
ALU
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Controls the flow of data around the CPU and manages I/O devices
Control Unit
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Stores the immediate result of a calculation
Accumulator
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very fast but very small memory store in built into the CPU
register
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fast but fairly small memory that stores commonly used instructions
cache
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a type of CPU architecture where program are copied to and loaded from main memory
Von Neumann
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set of parallel wires that data is sent along
bus
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a measure of how many clock cycles are done in a second
clock speed
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where the address of the next instruction to be loaded from memory is located
MAR
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volatile and fast storage that programs and data are copied to, in order to be processed by the CPU
RAM
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a tiny crytsal that ticks and synchronises the timings of the CPU
clock
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A buffer register used to hold the data just accessed from main memory
MDR
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Card 2

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Controls the flow of data around the CPU and manages I/O devices

Back

Control Unit

Card 3

Front

Stores the immediate result of a calculation

Back

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Card 4

Front

very fast but very small memory store in built into the CPU

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

fast but fairly small memory that stores commonly used instructions

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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