Midterm Revision Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
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Memory
A
Hardware devices used to STORE data and instruction
2
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The Stack
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Special region of memory that holds local variables and function calls
3
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The Heap
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Special region of memory used for Dynamic Memory Allocation
4
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Address
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A numerical value (usually hexadecimal) that can uniquely identify a memory location
5
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The data bus
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Collection of parallel electric wires used to carry actual data (in bits) between the computer’s components (such as from CPU to memory and back)
6
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Peripherals
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External devices connected to the computer system to interact with the outside world. Examples like I/O devices like keyboard, touchscreen, monitor
7
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Load and store instructions
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Load loads data from memory to register. Store stores data from register to memory
