Blog 5 Week 5
Assignment: In your own words explain the following terms:
Word size: This is the number of bits that a processor can process at one time. I read that a word is the same size as the computer's data bus. This is so that a word can be moved in a single operation from RAM to registers and to the processor. If a computer's architecture is an eight-bit byte, the word will be some multiple of eight bits.
Over-clocking is when the processor frequency (or system clock) or RAM is set to a faster speed than the manufacture recommends. This increases the computer's performance. However, over-clocking can overheat a processor and can make peripherals and or programs fail.
A data path is a portion of the system bus that transports data INTO the processor.
SRAM: This is static random access memory that is very fast and used for memory cache. It temporally holds data and programs for the central processing unit. It only holds it memory while there is power, when the computer is turned off, the SRAM empties it memory.
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