Physical Components Crossword Puzzle

Physical Components

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BCD

Piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network through MAC addresses.

Use a microprocessor chip as it CPU, more commonly known as PCs, combines desktops and laptops.

Performs mathematical and logical operations.

RAM

Fundamental activity of an information system.

Machine that processes data exceptionally fast (used for calculation-intensive task).

Allows the processor to communicate with a disk.

Allows peripheral devices to be connected without the need to plug extension cards into computer's external bus.

Techniques used to reduce the number of bytes required to store certain kinds of data.

Fundamental to data processing and to an information system (IPO).

Keeps thing organized and synchronized.

Carries actual data being processed.

Standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer.

Powerful, highen microcomputer used for application requiring more power than a PC.

Keeps all activities in the computer synchronized.

Sized in between normal computers and microcomputers.

Uses 16 bits of coding compared to the 8 in the binary system.

Computers used mainly by large organizations for mission critical requirements (bulk data processing activities).

Main body of a computer.

Special memory that operates much faster than RAM

Component of a computer system that ties all other components together.

Responsible for generating output images to a display.

Connecting and disconnecting a device without powering down the computer.

Time between the processor initiating a request for a byte or word in memory until it is retrieved.

Memory management technique, used by multitasking computer operating systems.

INtegral to what makes computers and data processing plausible.

Carries the information about which device the computer is communicating with.

Used to interpret/sotred data using binary, each bit has 2 possibilities, so the total number of combinations possible for something is 2 to the number of bits power.

Component that processes data by interpreting/executing instructions that are contained in computer programs.

Groups of 8 bits...

Fan, heat sink (absorbs heat and puts in air), heat pipe (transports heat).

Each 1 or 0 is known as...

Subsystem of the motherboard that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer, or between computer and external components.

Can output/input sound under control of computer programs.

Used to send commands to other devices within the computer.

Doorway between an external device and a computer system (i.e. USB, bluetooth, firewire).

Temporary but fast storage.

Lies in the distribution of firmware (ROM).

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