Adbrite

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Engineers Fundamental

To become a computer engineer you need to have solid knowledge of computer fundamental.

In the fundamental concepts first term is hardware issue such as

1.CPU

2.RAM

3.PRocessor

4.Hard disk

5.ROM

These term are essential for learning fundamental of computer

CPU:

CPU - Central Processing Unit

The CPU (processor) is one of the most important components in a computer, it can be likened to the brain of the system. There are 2 main PC CPU manufacturers, Intel and AMD.
There have been many advancements in CPU manufacturing and innovation over the years, however, the fundamentals of these ingenious devices hasn't changed.
The CPU's common components include:

  • CU - Control Unit, this sequences, controls and times the other functions of the CPU.
  • ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit, this carries out simple mathematical equations on the binary data stored inside the data registers.
  • Registers - these are temporary memory locations which hold binary data and store the results of ALU calculations. There are also memory address registers which, as the name suggests, hold data concerning where in the memory certain instructions and data is held.
  • BUS - this carries data between the memory and registers.

No comments:

Post a Comment