1.1 Buses, Programming

Question 1

What is a high level programming language ? (2 points)

Answer 1

Close to English and readable by humans.

But has to be converted to machine code for the CPU to understand.

Question 2

What is low level language ?

Answer 2

Machine Code which the computer can understand.

Question 3

What are the three Buses ?

Answer 3

Address Bus, Data Bus, Control Bus.

Question 4

What does the Address Bus do? (2 points)

Answer 4

Transmits the address of the data to be loaded from CPU to memory.

Goes only one way.

Question 5

What does the Data Bus do ? (2 points)

Answer 5

The data bus transmits data between the components.

It goes both ways.

Question 6

What does the Control bus do ? (2 points)

Answer 6

The control bus transmits command, timing, and status information between components.

It goes both ways.