embedded systems - A system built within another device, computer system - Consists of hardware and software that work together to process data/complete tasks, hardware - physical components of a computer , software - programs or applications that a computer system runs, Central processing unit - processes all of the data and instructions on a computer, control unit - Overall control of the CPU. it manages the FDE cycle, Arithmetic logic unit - Performs all of the calculations in the CPU., Cache - stores frequently used data. Very fast memory, Von neumann - Hungarian mathmatician who designed the most popular computer architecture, Clock speed - Number of FDE cycles that are completed per second, Fetch - Data and instructions are taken from memory, Decode - The CPU works out the task, Execute - The task/instruction is complete,

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