Loop cards are a great game that can be played individually or as a class. They are perfect for review key vocabulary or questions at the end of a topic or when revising for an exam.
Instructions
Cut out the cards from the paper horizontally (but don't cut them in half!) and then shuffle them.
Now start joining each question on the right hand side of the card to the matching answer on the next card.
Carry on until all the cards loop together and you have competed the game!
Hint: Make sure that you set your paper to portrait to print 4 cards per sheet of A4 paper.
A bus in a computer architecture that is used by the CPU to communicate with other hardware components and control their operations.
Instruction Execution
The process of carrying out the operation specified by an instruction using the data from registers and memory.
Memory Data Register
a register that stores data being transferred to and from the memory unit
Von Neumann Architecture
A computer architecture where where programs and data are stored in the same memory and can be executed sequentially by the CPU
Instruction Fetch
The process of retrieving a program instruction from memory so that it can be executed by the CPU.
Control Unit
The component of a CPU that manages the execution of instructions, coordinates the activities of the other components, and controls the flow of data within the CPU.
Central Processing Unit
The primary component of a computer that performs most of the processing inside the computer, including performing arithmetic, logical, control, and input/output operations.
Memory
The component of a computer that is used to store data and program instructions for immediate use by the CPU.
Instruction Register
a register that holds the currently executed instruction in a CPU
Instruction Decode
The process of determining the exact operation to be performed and the operands of a given instruction.