Peer To Peer Crossword Puzzle Activity

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  1. 1. A computer capable of supporting only a single CPU
  2. 3. The processing logic of a CPU that is manufactured on a silicon wafer containing millions or billions of transistors
  3. 8. The smallest piece of computer code that can be independently scheduled for execution
  4. 11. A component of a CPU that executes floating-point mathematical operations
  5. 12. The description of the internal circuitry of a CPU that defines characteristics such as the technology used to create the chip, the supported instruction set, and the bit size
  6. 15. A CPU design that permits the processor to operate on one instruction at the same time it is fetching one or more subsequent instructions from the operating system or application
  7. 16. A computer program that takes a high-level language like C++ or Java and turns it into assembly code that is executed by the CPU
  8. 17. controller Internal computer hardware that manages the data going into and loaded from the computer’s cache memory
  9. 18. The speed at which the processor communicates with the memory and other devices in the computer; it is usually one-fourth to one-half the internal clock speed An internal communications pathway that carries data between the CPU and memory locations
  10. 19. A memory address that a CPU begins reading from whenever the CPU receives a reset signal, such as when power is first applied or someone presses the reset button on a computer
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  1. 2. A computer CPU design that dedicates processor hardware components to certain functions. This design reduces the number and complexity of required instructions and often results in faster performance than CISC CPUs. Compare to Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC).
  2. 4. A component of a CPU that executes instructions
  3. 5. A register on a CPU that contains the address of the next instruction the CPU will execute
  4. 6. A feature of some Intel CPUs that allows two threads to run on each CPU core simultaneously
  5. 7. The computer hardware design that includes the processor (CPU) and communication routes between the CPU and the hardware it manages, such as memory and disk storage
  6. 9. An internal communications pathway that carries data between the CPU and memory locations
  7. 10. A computer capable of supporting only a single CPU
  8. 13. The part of a processor used to read and execute instructions
  9. 14. The speed at which a CPU executes an instruction or part of an instruction, measured in megahertz (millions of clock ticks per second) or gigahertz (billions of clock ticks per second). Internal clock speeds can be as low as 1 MHz on older CPUs or microcontrollers and more than 5 GHz on modern CPUs used in general-purpose client and server computers
  10. 20. The numeric code read by the CPU that represents a particular machine instruction