Computers

Inside the Computer

Buses and Ports
PCI (peripheral component
interconnect) local bus allows for
circuit boards to connect to the
common system bus

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Buses and Ports
Expansion slots where expansion
boards are installed
Expansion boards or expansion cards
provide additional capabilities to the
computer

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Buses and Ports
AGP (accelerated graphics port) bus
speeds up high-resolution 3-D
graphics

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Buses and Ports
USB (universal serial bus) used to
connect peripheral devices to the PC
USB hub connects to the USB port
and provides additional places to plug
USB devices

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Buses and Ports
Hot plug USB devices can be
attached or removed while the PC is
running
USB 2.0 about 40 times faster than
original USB

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Buses and Ports
1394 bus similar to USB in speed
FireWire Apple terminology
Supports hot plugging

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Buses and Ports
SCSI (small computer system
interface) or scuzzy bus early
alternative to expansion slots in PCs

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Inside the Computer
Legacy and Other PC Ports
Serial port data flows one bit at a time
Parallel port data flows several bits at
a time
IrDA port or infrared port data sent by
light waves

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PC Growth: Adding Capabilities
Expansion Boards placed in
expansion slots
Graphics adapter
Sound
Data/voice/fax modem
Network interface card (NIC)
SCSI interface card
Video capture card
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PC Cards: PCMCIA Technology
PCMCIA card or PC card
Usually used on notebook computers
Expand RAM
NIC
Hard-disk cards
GPS (global positioning system)

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Inside the Computer
Build Your Own PC
Advantages
Cheaper (for high-end systems)
Meets your requirements

Disadvantages
No warranty on system
No help desk

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Inside the Computer
Describing the Processor and Its
Performance
Word or Bus Width number of bits
handled as a unit

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Core Speed: GHz, MIPS, and FLOPS
Gigahertz (GHz) billions of clock
cycles per second
Megahertz (MHz) millions of clock
cycles per second

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Core Speed: GHz, MIPS, and FLOPS
MIPS millions of instructions per
second
FLOPS floating point operations per
second; used to measure speed of
supercomputers

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Bus Speed
Most processors operate at GHz
Most buses operate at MHz
Major block to efficiency in a PC

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Memory Capacity
MB (megabyte) approximately 1
million bytes
GB (gigabyte) approximately 1
billion bytes
TB (terabyte) approximately 1
trillion bytes

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Memory Capacity
KB (kilobytes) approximately 1000
bytes
Kb (kilobit)
Mb (megabit)

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Inside the Computer
Processor Design
Parallel processing multiple
processors in one computer system
Massively parallel processing (MPP)
parallel processing with thousands of
processors

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Processor Design
Grid Computing users on the
Internet share their unused computer
power

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Chapter 4 Inside the Computer
Lesson Summary

Understand how data is stored and

represented in a computer
Describe the functions and relationships
between internal computer components
Distinguish processors by word size,
speed, and memory capability
Identify new processor design
approaches

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