Wgu C952 Ch2 Study Guide Rated A+

wafer {Ans: a slice from a silicon ingot no more than 0.1 inches thick --> chips}Application binary interface {Ans: the user portion of the instruction set plus the OS interfaces used by application programmers defines the standard for binary probability across computers}datapath {Ans: where the data it transformed via computations (+, -...) t/g with control => processor}pipelining {Ans: moves multiple operations through hardware that each do a piece of an operation}gigabyte {Ans: 10^9 bytes}Instruction set Architecture {Ans: Also called architecture. An abstract interface between the hardware and the lowest-level software that encompasses all the information necessary to write a machine language program that will run correctly, including instructions, registers, memory access, I/O, and so on.}