Device

- anything or any equipment that is used for a specific purpose

- 3 Types of Devices
- Input Devices
- the devices which recieve data/instruction
- Examples
- Keyboard
- mouse/trackball
- scanner
- microphone
- Simple Camera
- Joystick
- Stylus
- touchpad/pointing stick
- Output Devices
- the devices which send data/instruction
- Examples
- monitor
- speaker
- printer/plotters
- projector
- Peripheral Devices
- the devices which send and recieve data/instruction
- Examples
- Modem
- Routers/Hubs/Switches
- Smart Camera
- Fax Machine
- Touch Screens
- Telephone
Memory
- the device which is used to temporarily hold the data
- 4 types of memories
- Registers
- smallest memory in the system
- it is located in the processor
- Genernal Purpose
- accumulator
- base
- counter
- data
- it is smaller in physical and memory size
- it is very expensive
- it is very fast
- it is in Bytes
- Cache Memory
- it is located in motherboard
- it is slower than registers
- it very expensive but cheaper than registers
- it is in smaller MBs
- ROM
- Read Only Memory
- Basic instructions are stored in ROM
- Sequential access
- Non-volatile
- Hard-wired
- RAM
- Random Access Memory
- Everything which we want to execute should be loaded into the
RAM first
- Volatile
- Flip-flops
- Requires addresses to access any location
- data is stored as long as the electricity is supplied to it