1. Vocabulary Hardware Flash cards Computer Science – Espinosa

2. Hardware ? A piece of silicon with an electronic circuit embedded in it. Answer next slide

3. chip

4. Hardware ? Acronym for super-thin displays that are used in laptop computer screens and flat panel monitors. Answer next slide

5. LCD Liquid Crystal Display they use up much less power than standard CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) monitors – The old big tv type monitors

6. Hardware ? a cable made up of super-thin filaments of glass or other transparent materials that can carry beams of light. Because a _________ is light-based, data can be sent through it at the speed of light. Using a laser transmitter that encodes frequency signals into pulses of light, ones and zeros are sent through the cable. The receiving end of the transmission translates the light signals back into data which can be read by a computer.

7. Fiber-Optic Cable

8. Hardware ? an optical disc format such as CD and DVD. It was developed for recording and playing back high-definition (HD) video and for storing large amounts of data. Answer next slide

9. Blu-ray

10. Acronym Hardware ? This hardware component is the Brain of the computer The most important part of the computer that controls the power & overall performance Intel is the world wide industry leader of this hardware component Answer please

11. CPU CPU – central processing unit

12. Hardware ? This piece of hardware is used for temporary storage but very fast. The more memory you have the faster your computer. Answer

13. RAM Random Access Memory Sometimes just called memory

14. Hardware ? Hardware device is used for connecting to the Internet and subscribers see a much faster response than dial-up connections – up to 30 Mbps. Answer next slide

15. Cable Modem

16. Hardware ? ** Standard unit of measurement for measuring frequency – for computers it is measuring one electromagnetic wave. Answer next slide

17. Hertz - Hz

18. Hardware ? a type of electrically erasable programmable read- only memory (EEPROM). The name comes from how the memory is designed -- a section of memory cells can be erased in a single action extremely quickly. Answer next slide

19. Flash Memory

20. Hardware ? ** a hardware device that directs data from a local area network (LAN) to another network connection. Answer next slide

21. Router The owners CISCO Systems created the first routers.

22. Hardware ? Main circuit board of the computer. Attached to it – CPU, ROM, RAM, PCI slots, USB ports etc. Basically holds all the parts so that everything works in your computer. Answer next slide

23. Motherboard