Rules and Lesson s learnt by system architects after long experiences which when followed result in sound, stable, practical systems # 1 My ...

A test proposed to determine if a computer has the ability to think. In 1950, Alan Turing (Turing, 1950) proposed a method for determining i...

Charles Babbage had huge difficulties raising money to fund his research As a last resort, he designed a clever mathematical scheme along wi...

floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a CPU specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are fl...

The instruction decoder of a processor is a combinatorial circuit sometimes in the form of a read-only memory, sometimes in the form of an o...

An arithmetic and logical unit (ALU) also known as “Integer Unit” is one of the core components of all central processing units. It is capab...

The bus interface unit is the part of the processor that interfaces with the rest of the PC. Its name comes from the fact that it deals with...

In order to eliminate the solution it was suggested to make the main memory faster. But that evolved a problem that the 1-ns memory is extre...

A microcontroller is a microprocessor optimised to be used to control electronic equipment. Microcontrollers represent the vast majority of ...

Modern super-fast microprocessors can process a huge amount of data in a short duration. They need data to be processed at the same speed. O...

Microprocessors are powerful pieces of hardware, but not much useful on their own. They do not have the sense of their own. Like the human s...

A chip is also called an (integrated circuit (IC) (aka microchip or just chip). It is a microelectronic semiconductor device consisting of m...

sometimes called a logic chip. A microprocessor is designed to perform arithmetic and logic operations that make use of small number-holding...

ROM is "built-in" computer memory containing data that normally can only be read, not written to. ROM contains the programming tha...

A card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes.

On computer and telecommunication devices, a port (noun) is generally a specific place for being physically connected to some other device, ...

Parallel An interface on a computer that supports transmission of multiple bits at the same time; almost exclusively used for connecting a p...

Mouse A mouse is a small device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to se...

Input The devices used to give the computer data or commands are called Input devices. Includes keyboard, mouse, scanner, etc Processor A pr...

Ranking w.r.t. installed number PC’s PDA’s Workstations Servers Wearable (picture is provided) Mainframes Supercomputers At the highest leve...