ADMS 2511 Midterm: Midterm 2 Summary.doc

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Central processing unit (cpu: central processing unit (cpu) performs the actual computation or number crunching inside any computer. It occurs millions of times per second or more. The faster clock speed, the faster the chip or computer speed: word length: the number of bits (0s and 1s) that can be processed by the cpu at any one time. The wider or bigger the bus, the more data can be transferred and the faster the processing. 1: the number of transistors on the chip depend on the line width - the distance between transistors (in nanometres, billionths of a meter). Tow most common gallium arsenide and silicon germanium. microprocessor architectures are cisi (complex instruction set computing) and risi (reduced instruction set computing: placing multiple processors on a single chip multicore chips, e. g. intel core 2 duo or. Intel dual-core: microcontrollers are computer chips, embedded in products and technologies (cell phone, toys, etc.