Computer Organisation and Design
Introduction
This is me looking at theory and documenting what I need to know. Primarily this was driven from my electronics and not IT.
Pulse Trains
- Non-Periodic pulse trains are digital signals with any pulses over time
- Periodic pulse trains are pulses in fixed time like a clock signal
- T=period (seconds/cycle)
- tw = pulse width
- frequency = cycles/second or frequency = 1/T
- duty cycle = % of time period train = 1 or tw /T x 100%
Binary
Lots of talk about binary and how it works. This is a placeholder to remind me we needed to know about this. Good terms were
- LSB Least significant bit
- MSB Most significant bit