Past Lesson Note

This note is from 8 months ago. You're viewing content from a previous lesson.

Daily Note for October 6, 2025 Past Lesson

We will spend most of class carefully reviewing your tests, pointing out mistakes and suggestions for improvement. 

We will then take a look at whats next. The link to our next is here: https://faq.computersciencewiki.org/index.php/home/c/computer-fundamentals

We will learn: 

 

A1.1.1 Describe the functions and interactions of the main CPU components.
• Units: arithmetic logic unit (ALU), control unit (CU)
• Registers: instruction register (IR), program counter (PC), memory address register (MAR), memory data
register (MDR), accumulator (AC)
• Buses: address, data, control
• Processors: single core processor, multi-core processor, co-processors
• A diagrammatic representation of the relationship between the specified CPU components

A1.1.2 Describe the role of a GPU.
• The architecture that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) to handle specific tasks and makes them
suitable for complex computations
• Real-world scenarios may include video games, artificial intelligence (AI), large simulations and other
applications that require graphics rendering and machine learning.