CH. 2 The System Unit: Processing and Memory
Overview
how computers respresents data and program instructions
Data and program representation
digital and numerical data
coding system
for text-bases data and other types of data
Graphic, Audio, and Video Data
Inside the System Unit
the motherboard and the Power supply and Drive bays
Future Trends
Nanotechnology, quantom and opticalcomputing, silicon Photonics, Trascale Computing and 3D Chps.
Strategies for making Faster and Better Computers.
improved Architecture, Materials, Pipeling, Multiprccessing anmd Parallel processing.
The CPU
proccessing speed, word size,, cache memory, and Bus width
Memory
RAM , Rigesters, ROM, and Flash Memory
Buses
Memory, FSB, PCI, USB, and FireWire Bus