Theory Review

5. a hardware component that is primarily responsible for giving and displaying the visual output onto the computer monitor
6. A microscopic switch that can allow power through or not
9. responsible for directing and coordinating all operations within the processor and the entire computer system
12. One of the parts of the chipset that manages the slower binary operations
13. the brain of the CPU that does the actual calculations
14. a computers short term memory that temporarily stores data
15. the process of breaking down a fetched instruction (in binary code) into its component parts to figure out what needs to be done

1. One of the parts of the chipset that manages the high speed communication between the CPU, RAM, and GPU
2. the first step in a CPU's continuous process of running a program that retrieves the instructions
3. the stage where the processor performs the actual work specified by an instruction
4. a small, fast memory located on or near the CPU that stores data that needs to be sent to the register.
7. a computer hardware device that reads and writes data on optical discs
8. a communication pathway for data
10. small, high-speed storage unit located directly within a CPU that holds data for immediate processing
11. a computers main storage for data