Lecture 5

Question 1

Bus

Answer 1

A bus is a bundle of wires for reading and writing between CPU and other components

Question 2

Data bus, address bus, and control bus

Answer 2

• Data bus is for carrying data
• Address bus makes the data bus linking CPU with a memory address exclusively
• Control bus is for executing read/write actions

Question 3

ROM

Answer 3

read only memory, for storing data permanently even without power.

Question 4

EPROM

Answer 4

erasable programmable read only memor

Question 5

EEPROM

Answer 5

electrically erasable programmable read only memory

Question 6

RAM

Answer 6

RAM: a temporary memory maintained by electric charge for fast operations.