Lesson 6
Across
- 3. Grab and hold the next instruction to be executed
- 5. Holds data that is being used and the results of calculations or logic
- 9. Informs the user if an interrupt happened
- 10. Holds the address of the RAM you are reading or writing from
- 11. Holds the current instruction being executed
- 12. This makes the hardware work and is a program
- 14. Holds the instructions used by the CPU, can also be called primary memory
- 15. The brain of the computer
- 16. Something you enter into the computer
- 18. Carries the address of memory locations that store memory and instructions between the processor and CPU
Down
- 1. How the registers run programs
- 2. Transfers binary data between memory locations
- 4. Signals that control when things happen within a computer are moved by this bus
- 6. Controls how the data moves between the processor and CPU
- 7. Memory locations within the CPU
- 8. Holds any data about the last operation
- 10. Holds the data read from RAM or are going to write to RAM
- 13. Carries out calculations and logic
- 17. The physical components of a computer