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Hardware and Software: How Computers Work

This document discusses how computers work through hardware and software. It explains that hardware are the physical components inside the device, while software are the computer programs and code. It states that the central processing unit (CPU) controls all other hardware parts and receives simple binary commands from the operating system to execute tasks like addition. The CPU fetches and executes the binary commands sequentially from memory.

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543 views5 pages

Hardware and Software: How Computers Work

This document discusses how computers work through hardware and software. It explains that hardware are the physical components inside the device, while software are the computer programs and code. It states that the central processing unit (CPU) controls all other hardware parts and receives simple binary commands from the operating system to execute tasks like addition. The CPU fetches and executes the binary commands sequentially from memory.

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HOW COMPUTERS WORK:

HARDWARE AND
SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
When you look inside a
computing device you see a
bunch of circuits, chips, wires,
speakers, plugs, and all sorts of
other stuff.

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SOFTWARE
▪ What you don’t see is called
software.
▪ Software is all of the
computer programs, or
code, running on this
machine.
▪ Software can be anything
from apps and games to
webpages and the data
science software.

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But how do the hardware and the software interact with one
another?

Central Processing Unit Binary Code Operating System


(CPU) - It is the most basic form of - It is the master program that
software and it controls all the manages how software gets to use
- It is the master chip that controls
hardware of the computer. the hardware of the computer.
all the other parts of the computer.

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.
ILLUSTRATION
The binary commands
For example, an "add" are stored in memory
command tells the and the CPU fetches
CPU to use its outer and executes them in
Software tells the CPU circuit to calculate a sequence one after the
what to do. new number. other

1 3 5

2 4

The CPU receives Then the "store"


simple commands that command tells the
tell it which circuit to CPU to use a different
use to do a specific circuit to save that
job result into memory.

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