This slide Pack covers the 6 internal components of a computer system. These components play a very important part in the fast running of a computer system.

1. Computer Organisation and
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2. Objective
• Get an understanding of the 6
Basic Internal Components of a
Computer System.

3. Internal Components of a Computer
Systems
• Processor (CPU)
• Main memory
• I/O controllers.
• Address bus
• Data bus
• Control bus

4. The CPU
• The Brains behind
the computer
• Central Processing
Unit
• Memory – Registers
• Memory for
Programs

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Memory
• This is the place where information in the
form of binary digits are stored
• The binary digits represent both the
Instructions, and the data on which the
instructions are carried out.
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6. What is a Bus?
According to computer
architecture, a bus is
defined as a system that
transfers data between
hardware components
of a computer or
between two separate
computers.
It is a set of Parallel
wires connecting two or
more components of a
computer.

7. The Bus connects the Hardware.

8. Internal Components of a Computer
Systems
• Processor (CPU)
• Main memory
• I/O controllers.
• Address bus
• Data bus
• Control bus

9. A little Exercise
• In your Revision
notebook, draw
and label a
diagram of the
internal
components of a
computer system.

10. In the Next Video….
• Understand the role of the computer
system components and how they
relate to each other.

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