COMPUTER HARDWARE

COMPONENTS IN COMPUTER HARDWARE

1. PROCESSOR
2. MOTHERBOARD
3. MEMORY
4. ADAPTER CARD
5. INPUT DEVICES
6. OUTPUT DEVICES

PROCESSOR...

 -Processor  is an electronic component which process a lot of operations and instruction from users.

-Consist of 2 components which are Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) and Control Unit (CU).

-CU carries out all basic instructions while ALU interprets and performs logical instructions which  include arithmetic operations

-CU and ALU work together in machine cycle:

• FETCH- Process  of obtaining a program instruction or data from memory.
• DECODE- Process of translating the instruction into signals the computer can execute.
• EXECUTE- Process of carrying out the commands.
• STORE- Writing result to memory.