Understand and The role of the components explain the to be explained. cycle. Students only need a high-level understanding of the cycle. They don’t need to know the details of register operations etc. A range of online simulators can be used to illustrate this. 3.4.4 Understand Understand difference 0.5 hours This is not a very practical topic. (note some content difference between between main memory Most of the content is probably not required) main memory and and secondary storage best explained to the students secondary storage and between RAM and by the teacher, although and between RAM ROM. Be able to explain students could be asked to and ROM. Be able to volatile and non-volatile. research parts of it eg what explain volatile and cache is and how it improves non-volatile. performance. Explain the effect of clock speed, number of cores Explain the effect of clock speed, number
Understand and explain the cycle. The role of the components to be explained. Students only need a high-level understanding of the cycle. They don’t need to know the details of register operations etc. A range of online simulators can be used to illustrate this. 3.4.4 Understand difference between main memory and secondary storage and between RAM and ROM. Be able to explain volatile and non-volatile. Explain the effect of clock speed, number Understand difference between main memory and secondary storage and between RAM and ROM. Be able to explain volatile and non-volatile. Explain the effect of clock speed, number of cores 0.5 hours This is not a very practical topic. Most of the content is probably best explained to the students by the teacher, although students could be asked to research parts of it eg what cache is and how it improves performance. (note some content not required)
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