General Concepts 1 min read
Ports
· Serial – Serial port “serializes” data. – Mouse, Modems etc use Serial port. · Parallel – Bits transmitted in parallel. –…
THE ARTICLE LIBRARY
All stories.
Ideas and explainers from across SenseCentral.
General Concepts 1 min read
Sound Card
· Converts digital data (bits) into analog sound wave and vice-versa. · Has Digital Signal Processor, RAM, ADC and DAC. · Has jacks…
General Concepts 2 min read
Video Card
· What’s a Graphics Card? – A modern graphics card is a circuit board with memory and a dedicated processor. –…
General Concepts 1 min read
Hard Disk
· What is Hard Disk? – Stores data in magnetic disk like medium · Non-volatile mass storage device. · Has very high access…
General Concepts 2 min read
Motherboard
The main circuit board which connects all the device on a microcomputer; Also called main board or system board · Chipset…
General Concepts 2 min read
RAM
· What is RAM? – Random Access Memory. – RAM is volatile. · Broadly classified as – Static RAM. – Dynamic RAM.…
General Concepts 2 min read
Processor
· Processor is the brain of your computer. · Some key concepts –Clock : In a computer, clock speed refers to the…
General Concepts 2 min read
Computer Software
Computer software is the set of programs that makes the hardware perform a set of tasks in particular order. Hardware…
General Concepts 5 min read
Input / Output Devices
These devices are used to enter information and instructions into a computer for storage or processing and to deliver the…
General Concepts 3 min read
Memory
Computer’s memory can be classified into two types; primary memory and secondary memory a. Primary Memory can be further classified…
