Lecture-2(1): Computer Hardware & System Components

LECTURE 02
HARDWARE:
COMPUTER SYSTEM &
COMPONENTS
Mr. Mubashir Ali
Lecturer(Dept. of Computer Science)
dr.mubashirali1@gmail.com

Living in a Digital World
Discovering
Computers 2010

Objectives Overview
Differentiate among various
styles of system units on
desktop computers,
notebook computers, and
mobile devices
Identify chips, adapter
cards, and other
components of a
motherboard
Describe the control unit
and arithmetic logic unit
components of a processor,
and explain the four steps in
a machine cycle
Identify characteristics of
various personal computer
processors on the market
today, and describe the
ways processors are cooled
Define a bit and describe
how a series of bits
represents data
Explain how program
instructions transfer in and
out of memory
Discovering Computers 2010: Living in a Digital World
Chapter 4
3See Page 209
for Detailed Objectives

Objectives Overview
Differentiate among the various
types of memory
Describe the purpose and types
of expansion slots and adapter
cards, and differentiate among
slots for various removable flash
memory devices
Differentiate between a port and
a connector, and explain the
differences among a USB port,
FireWire port, Bluetooth port,
SCSI port, eSATA port, IrDA port,
serial port, and MIDI port
Describe the types of buses in a
computer
Explain the purpose of a power
supply and describe how it keeps
cool
Understand how to clean a
system unit on a computer or
mobile device
Chapter 4
4See Page 209
for Detailed Objectives

The System Unit
• The system unit is a case that contains electronic
components of the computer used to process data
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Figure 4-1

The System Unit
• The inside of the system unit on a desktop
personal computer includes:
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Figure 4-2
Drive bay(s)
Power supply
Sound card
Video card
Processor
Memory

The System Unit
• The motherboard is the main circuit board of the
system unit
– A computer chip contains integrated circuits
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Figure 4-3

Processor
• The processor, also called the central processing
unit (CPU), interprets and carries out the basic
instructions that operate a computer
– Contain a control unit and an arithmetic logic unit
(ALU)
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Multi-core
processor
Dual-core
processor
Quad-core
processor

Processor
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Figure 4-4

Processor
• The control unit is the component of the
processor that directs and coordinates most of
the operations in the computer
• The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs
arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
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Click to view Web Link,
click Chapter 4, Click Web
Link from left navigation,
then click Control Unit
below Chapter 4

Processor
• For every instruction, a processor repeats a set of
four basic operations, which comprise a machine
cycle
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Figure 4-5

Processor
• Most current personal
computers support
pipelining
– Processor begins
fetching a second
instruction before it
completes the machine
cycle for the first
instruction
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Figure 4-6

Processor
The processor contains registers, that
temporarily hold data and instructions
The system clock controls the timing
of all computer operations
• The pace of the system clock is called the clock
speed, and is measured in gigahertz (GHz)
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Processor
• Parallel processing uses multiple processors
simultaneously to execute a single program or task
– Massively parallel processing involves hundreds or thousands of
processors
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Figure 4-11

Data Representation
Analog signals are continuous and vary in
strength and quality
Digital signals are in one of two states: on
or off
• Most computers are digital
• The binary system uses two unique digits (0 and 1)
• Bits and bytes
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Data Representation
A computer circuit represents
the 0 or the 1 electronically by
the presence or absence of an
electrical charge
Eight bits grouped together as a
unit are called a byte. A byte
represents a single character in
the computer
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Figures 4-12 – 4-13

Data Representation
• ASCII (American
Standard Code for
Information
Interchange) is the most
widely used coding
scheme to represent
data
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Figure 4-14

Data Representation
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Figure 4-15

Memory
• Memory consists of electronic components that
store instructions waiting to be executed by the
processor, data needed by those instructions, and
the results of processing the data
• Stores three basic categories of items:
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The operating
system and other
system software
Application
programs
Data being
processed and the
resulting
information

Memory
• Each location in memory has an address
• Memory size is measured in kilobytes (KB or K),
megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes
(TB)
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Figure 4-17

Memory
• The system unit contains two types of memory:
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Volatile memory
Loses its contents when
power is turned off
Example includes RAM
Nonvolatile memory
Does not lose contents
when power is removed
Examples include ROM,
flash memory, and
CMOS

Memory
• Three basic types of RAM chips exist:
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Figure 4-19
Dynamic RAM
(DRAM)
Static RAM (SRAM)
Magnetoresistive
RAM (MRAM)

Memory
• RAM chips usually reside on a memory module
and are inserted into memory slots
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Figure 4-20

Memory
• Memory cache speeds the processes of the computer
because it stores frequently used instructions and data
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Figure 4-22
then click Windows
ReadyBoost below Chapter 4

Memory
Read-only memory (ROM) refers to memory chips
storing permanent data and instructions
• Firmware
A PROM (programmable read-only memory) chip is a
blank ROM chip that can be written to permanently
• EEPROM can be erased
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then click ROM
below Chapter 4

Memory
• Flash memory can be erased electronically and
rewritten
– CMOS technology provides high speeds and consumes
little power
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Figure 4-23

Memory
• Access time is the amount of time it takes the
processor to read from memory
– Measured in nanoseconds
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Figures 4-24 – 4-25

Expansion Slots and Adapter Cards
• An expansion slot is a
socket on the motherboard
that can hold an adapter
card
• An adapter card enhances
functions of a component of
the system unit and/or
provides connections to
peripherals
– Sound card and video card
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Figure 4-26
then click Video Cards
below Chapter 4

• With Plug and Play, the computer automatically
can configure adapter cards and other peripherals
as you install them
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Figure 4-27

• Removable flash memory includes:
– Memory cards, USB flash drives, and PC
Cards/ExpressCard modules
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Figure 4-28

Ports and Connectors
A port is the point at which a peripheral attaches to or
communicates with a system unit (sometimes referred
to as a jack)
A connector joins a cable to a port
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then click Digital Audio Port
below Chapter 4

Buses
• A bus allows the various
devices both inside and
attached to the system
unit to communicate with
each other
– Data bus
– Address bus
• Word size is the number
of bits the processor can
interpret and execute at a
given time
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Figure 4-36

Buses
• Expansion slots connect to expansion buses
• Common types of expansion buses include:
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PCI bus
PCI Express
bus
Accelerated
Graphics Port
USB and
FireWire bus
PC Card bus
then click FireWire
below Chapter 4

Bays
• A bay is an opening
inside the system unit in
which you can install
additional equipment
– A drive bay typically
holds disk drives
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Figure 4-37

Power Supply
The power supply converts the wall
outlet AC power into DC power
Some external peripherals have an AC
adapter, which is an external power
supply
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Putting It All Together
Home
Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel
Celeron Dual Core or
AMD Sempron
Minimum RAM: 2 GB
Small Office/
Home Office
Intel Core 2 Quad or
Intel Core 2 Extreme or
AMD Athlon FX or AMD
Athlon X2 Dual-Code
Minimum RAM: 4 GB
Mobile
AMD Turion X2
Minimum RAM: 2 GB
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Figure 4-38

Putting It All Together
Power
Intel Itanium 2 or AMD
Quad Core Opteron or
Intel Quad Core Xeon or
Sun UltraSPARC T2
Minimum RAM: 8 GB
Enterprise
Intel Core 2 Quad or
AMD Athlon FX or AMD
Athlon X2 Dual-Core
Minimum RAM: 4 GB
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Figure 4-38

Keeping Your Computer
or Mobile Device Clean
Clean your computer or mobile device once or twice a year
Turn off and unplug your computer or mobile device before
cleaning it
Use compressed air to blow away dust
Use an antistatic wipe to clean the exterior of the case and a
cleaning solution and soft cloth to clean the screen
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Summary
Components of the
system unit
How memory stores
data, instructions, and
information
Sequence of operations
that occur when a
computer executes an
instruction
Comparison of various
personal computer
processors on the
market today
How to clean the
exterior and interior of
a system unit
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