ENIGMA 4
Across
- 3. Part of a floating point number representing the magnitude
- 6. Base-10 number system used in everyday life
- 7. Smallest sequence of instructions a CPU can manage independently
- 11. Base-8 number system
- 14. Part of a machine code instruction that says what to do
- 15. Value used to detect errors in transmitted data
- 17. Technique where CPU starts next instruction before finishing current one
- 19. Compression that discards some data to reduce file size
- 22. When a calculation result is too large for its allocated bits
- 23. Tiny ultra-fast storage location inside the CPU
Down
- 1. Type of memory that uses storage to extend RAM
- 2. Fast memory sitting between RAM and the CPU
- 4. Final stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
- 5. First stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
- 8. Second stage of the fetch-decode-execute cycle
- 9. Program that is currently being executed by the CPU
- 10. Speed of a CPU measured in hertz
- 12. Compression that preserves every bit of original data
- 13. Core part of an operating system managing hardware
- 16. Firmware that runs when a computer first powers on
- 18. Signal that pauses the CPU to handle an urgent task
- 20. Part of a machine code instruction that says what to act on
- 21. Method used to represent negative numbers in binary