Unit 4 Flashcards
1
Q
Hardware that performs addition, subtraction, and usually logical operations such as AND and OR.
A
ALU (arithmetic logic unit)
2
Q
Computer arithmetic that represents numbers in which the binary point is not fixed
A
floating point
3
Q
A situation in which a negative exponent becomes too large to fit in the exponent field
A
underflow (floating point)
4
Q
A floating-point value represented in a 64-bit doubleword
A
double precision
5
Q
partitions of a processor that allow simultaneous operations
A
parallelism
6
Q
processor architecture and a programming concept that allows a single instruction to operate on multiple pieces of data simultaneously
A
SIMD (single instruction, multiple data)
