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• · UltraSPARC It was the first microprocessor from Sun Microsystems to implement the SPARC V9 ISA. Marc Tremblay was a co-microarchitect.

  · Assembler converts basic computer instructions into a pattern of bits which can be easily understood by the computer and the processor can use it to perform its basic operations.

  · Loader is a component that locates a given program (which can be an application or, in some cases, part of the operating system itself) in offline storage (such as a hard disk )

  · high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.

  · low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture. Generally this refers to either machine code or assembly language.

  · Parallel processing is the ability to carry out multiple operations or tasks simultaneously

  · operating system (OS) is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software

  · Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.

  · Race conditions can occur in electronics systems, especially logic circuits, and in computer software, especially multithreaded or distributed programs.

  · mouse A small box-shaped device with wheels that is moved about by hand over a flat surface and generates signals to.

  · trap A program-controlled technique which either recognizes or ignores an interrupt, depending upon a switch setting.

  · Embedded computers can be compared to "computers on a chip". All in one so to speak. You will find them in all kind of appareils that surround us. Washingmachines, ticketmachines at the subway, camera's, cars, motors, sewing machines, clocks. Everywhere needing something to regulate, control of check something.

  · Pentium 4 was a line of single-core desktop and laptopcentral processing units (CPUs), introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000 and shipped through August 8, 2008.

  · Branch predication is a strategy in computer architecture design for mitigating the costs usually associated with conditional branches, particularly branches to short sections of code. It does this by allowing each instruction to conditionally either perform an operation or do nothing.

  · interpreter normally means a computer program that executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming language.

  · adder or summer is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers. In many computers and other kinds of processors, adders are used not only in the arithmetic logic unit(s), but also in other parts of the processor, where they are used to calculate addresses, table indices, and similar.

  · gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, that is, it performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise time and unlimited fan-out, or it may refer to a non-ideal physical device.

  · Dynamic RAM is a type of RAM that only holds its data if it is continuously accessed by special logic called a refresh circuit.

  · Static RAM (SRAM). Static RAM is a type of RAM that holds its data without external refresh, for as long as power is supplied to the circuit.

  · flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information.

  · 1Hz is electronic and micro electronic circuits for clock and timing control signals

  · Blue Gene is a computer architecture project to produce several supercomputers, designed to reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, and currently reaching sustained speeds of nearly 500 TFLOPS (teraFLOPS).

  · A media processor is a microprocessor-based system-on-a-chip which is designed to deal with digital streaming data in real-time

  · pipeline is a technique used in the design of computers and other digital electronic devices to increase their instruction throughput (the number of instructions that can be executed in a unit of time).

  · Cache is a block of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is likely to be used again

  · PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computerexpansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the aforementioned bus standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance-scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism, and native hot plug functionality. More recent revisions of the PCIe standard support hardware I/O virtualization.