Saturday, 28 September 2013

Basic Terms and Concepts Defined

Von Neumann Model - Input Device, Output Device, CPU and Main Memory
Turing Machine - theoretical computer with infinite memory
Harvard Architecture - separate storage and pathways for instruction and data
MIPS - millions of instructions per second
MFLOPs - millions of floating point operations per second
Logic gates - physical device implementing a Boolean function: combines or more logical inputs into a single logical output
EDVAC - one of the world's earliest electronic computers
Integrated Circuit (IC) - bunch of electronic circuits on a single chip (several billion transistors in a very small surface area)
Switch - in electrical engineering, a switch is a component that can break an electrical circuit.

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