EECS 1520 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - Computing Components

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Roger Lew

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In a computer essentially generated series of electrical pulses, called the clock, is used to ensure that all of its actions are coordinated: the cost in a processor pulses _____billion times per second, a processor needs to access memory and input/output devices and does so through a set of wires called a bus, the computer has many different buses, but the one that makes the primary connection between the processor and the outside world is called the fsb (front side bus, mb. Dual layer: the type of dvd, called rw (for rewritable) can be written more than once, bluetooth signal is a form of wireless network, but it operates at much shorter ranges with a relatively weak, typical uses for bluetooth are to connect with a wireless keyboard, mouse, earphones or for transferring data to and from the cell phone, usb.