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Stored Program Concept

Stored Program Concept

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Computers

9th - 10th Grade

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14 Slides • 18 Questions

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Stored Program Concept

von Neumann architecture, internal components, fetch-decode-execute cycle

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Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT an objective of this lesson?

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To know about the stored-program concept

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To name hardware components in a von Neumann architecture

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To know about the fetch-execute cycle

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To identify hardware peripherals

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What was the name of the French mathematician who invented one of the first computation devices?

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What was the name of the famous British mathematician who proposed the 'Universal Computing Machine'?

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What was the name of the Hungarian-American mathematician who gave his name to modern computer architecture?

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John von Neumann

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Alan Turing

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Tommy Flowers

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Alonzo Church

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Multiple Select

Choose all the components found in a von Neumann computer architecture ...

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Processing unit

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Control unit

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Memory

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External storage

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Input/output devices

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Multiple Choice

Which is the correct sequence of the machine cycle in a modern von Neumann architecture computer?

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Fetch

Decode

Execute

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Fetch

Execute

Decode

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Execute

Decode

Fetch

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Decode

Fetch

Execute

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Multiple Choice

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What happens during the 'fetch' phase of the processor cycle?

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The next Instruction or data is copied from RAM into the internal registers of the CPU

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Data is written into RAM from the internal registers of the CPU

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The machine code instruction corresponding to the next instruction is determined

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The result of the instruction is calculated inside the ALU

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Multiple Choice

Registers inside the CPU are like ...

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very fast-access memory locations

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a place to do calculations

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a control centre for the CPU

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a place to remember commonly used instructions

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Multiple Choice

Memory addresses to be accessed are sent along a special connection from the processor to the RAM called the ,,,

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address bus

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control bus

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data bus

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interrupt bus

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Fill in the Blank

The data read from memory goes back to the CPU along the ...

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What happens during the 'decode' phase of the processor cycle?

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The next Instruction or data is copied from RAM into the internal registers of the CPU

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Data is written into RAM from the internal registers of the CPU

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The exact machine code instruction corresponding to the current instruction is determined

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The result of the instruction is calculated inside the ALU

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Multiple Choice

The internal component of the CPU that performs the decode phase is the ...

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Control Unit (CU)

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Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

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Current Instruction Register (CIR)

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data bus

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Multiple Choice

The instruction set of a processor is the ....

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complete list of instructions it knows how to perform

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the program currently loaded into memory

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data stored inside the registers

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operating system controlling how the computer works

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What happens during the 'execute' phase of the processor cycle?

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The next Instruction or data is copied from RAM into the internal registers of the CPU

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Data is written into RAM from the internal registers of the CPU

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The exact machine code instruction corresponding to the current instruction is determined

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The machine instruction from the instruction set is carried out. This may involve using the ALU.

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Multiple Choice

The place inside the processor where calculations and decisions are carried out is the ...

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ALU

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Immediate Access Store

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Cache

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Control Unit

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Multiple Select

Choose all the phases of the processor cycle ,,,

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Fetch

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Decode

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Execute

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Return

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Write

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Open Ended

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Thinking Hard

Now you have finished the lesson, what questions do you still want answered?

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von Neumann architecture, internal components, fetch-decode-execute cycle

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