The CPU

CPU stands for

• Central Printing Unit

• Central Processing Union

• Control Processing Unit

• Central Processing Unit

The CPU is referred to as the

• lungs of the computer

• brain of the computer

• veins of the computer

• eyes of the computer

The term CU stands for

• Calculation Unit

• Central Unit

• Cinematic Universe

• Control Unit

The Control Unit

• performs mathematical calculations

• performs logical calculations

• understands the instructions and informs the other components what they have to do

• is another word for the system clock

The term ALU stands for

• Arithmetic Logic Unit

• Application Logic Unit

• Array Logic Unit

• Arithmetic Long Unit

The ALU

• is the manager of the computer

• determines the time at which a task must be done

• is a set of parallel wires that transport data between the CPU's components and memory

• performs arithmetic and logical calculations

The System Clock

• determines when tasks are performed by sending a sequence of electrical pulses to the CPU

• performs arithmetic tasks

• is a very small, very fast memory location

• performs logical calculations

The clock/processor speed is measured

• in bits

• in bytes

• in kilobytes

• in hertz

Registers are

• logical operations

• a set of parallel wires that transport data between the components inside the processor and memory

• very small, very fast memory locations located inside the CPU

• measured in hertz

Special purpose registers

• are very slow memory locations

• are very large memory locations

• are an example of secondary storage

• carry out very specific tasks