C952 CH2 WGU, Computer architecture. Exam Review. Rated A+

C952 CH2 WGU, Computer architecture. Exam Review. Rated A+ information revolution - -computers have led to a third revolution for civilization processor cores - -many embedded processors are designed using these version of these written in HDLs: Verilog or VHDL Personal Mobile Device - -PMD Warehouse Scale Computers - -used for cloud computing giant data centers Terabyte - -2^40 bytes 1,009,511,627,776 secondary storage systems developers used to mean 10^12 1,000,000,000,000 petabyte - -1024 terabytes (2^50) 10^15 Gigabyte (GB) - -1 billion bytes (2^30) Moore's Law - -states that integrated circuit resources double every 18-24 months abstractions - -major productivity technique used for hardware ans software is to use these to characterize the design at different levels of representation lower level details are hidden to offer a simplest model at higher levels common case - -making this fast will tend to enhance performance better than optimizing the rare case parallel - -designs that get more performance by computing operations this way pipelining - -a particular pattern of parallelism