AS Comp
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What is BCD? | Binary Coded Decimal - A value that is used to check against a database. The value holds no real value.
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| What is 39 in binary? | 00100111
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| What is 39 in hexadecimal? | 27
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| What is 39 in octal? | 47
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| What is sign and magnitude? | Where you change the first digit into a sign to show that it is positive or negative.
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| What is the problem with sign and magnitude? | That the first bit will have to be moved if the number is greater than 127 or less than -127. This is difficult for a computer to track.
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| What is 00100111 add 01001001? | 01110000
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| What does the Program Counter do? | Contains the address of the next instruction for the processor. The counter is incremented to find the next instruction. This is altered when an interrupt comes in.
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| What does the MAR do? | Memory Address Register - It is where the instruction from the PC is stored for use by the CPU.
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| What does the MDR do? | Memory Data Register - It finds the instruction from the address in the MAR and holds the instruction that the MAR has the address for.
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| What does the CIR do? | Current Instruction Register - Takes the instruction from the MDR. Then splits up the command and sends parts to be decoded. It also holds the address of the data used in the instruction.
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| What is the ALU? | Arithmetic and Logistics Unit - it works out the numerical equations given to it by the CPU
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| What is Cache RAM? | A highspeed RAM that acts as a buffer between the other units and processor.
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| What is MICR? | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition - used on cheques so humans and computers can read it.
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| What is OCR? | Optical Character Recognition - A scanner and program that reads characters and inputs them into data.
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