EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Dvd, Ieee 802.11, Operand

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Andy Mirzian

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Computer components: we begin this chapter by translating an ad for a desktop computer, we then examine the components of a computer as a logical whole before looking at each component in some detail. More specifically, the connection between the processor and the outside world is called the front side. Bus: 6mb cache; mb stands for megabyte, a byte is a unit of memory. 6mb refers to 6 megabytes of cache memory. Cache is a small, fast memory that is usually built into the processor chip. Thus, the 2 processors have direct assess to the 6mb of memory, without using the fsb. Ssd: lastly, the ad describes common software, microsoft word. Von neumann architecture: a major defining point in the history of computing was the realization in. Most computers are byte addressable (8 bits): the ad in the previous discussion above describes a memory of 4 x 2^30 bytes, this means that each of the 4gb is uniquely addressable.