CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Expresscard, Hyper-Threading, Control Unit
9 Sep 2016
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Chapter six of technology in action: understanding and assessing. Moore"s law: describes the pace at which cpus - the small chips that can be thought of as the. brains of the computer - improve: named after gordon moore o. Rule predicts that the number of transistors inside a cpu will increase so fast that cpu capacity will double every 18 months. External sata: fast transfer port on a notebook. Expresscard: adds functionality to a notebook o. System evaluation: look at computer"s subsystems, see what they do, and check how they perform o. Different types of processors including intel processors and amd processors. How does the cpu work? o o. Cpu comprised of two units: the control unit and the arithmetic logic unit (alu) Control unit coordinates the activities of all other computer components: alu is responsible for performing all the arithmetic calculations and makes logic and comparison decisions. Steps for the cpu to perform a program instruction: o.
