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Decks in this class (19)

Number systems and bases
What is a natural number,
What is an integer,
What is a rational number
13  cards
Chapter 23 - Logic gates
Summarise a not gate,
What are all the logic gates,
Booleon expression for not gate
12  cards
error checking and character sets
What is a parity bit,
How to get an even parity,
How to do an odd parity
20  cards
Image representation - 87 - 91
How can images in computers be st...,
Difference between bitmaps and ve...,
How to calculate
16  cards
Sound representation - 92 - 95
What is analogue signal,
What is digital signal,
What are adcs
29  cards
Encryption and compression - 96 - 99
What is the trade off between whe...,
What does lossy compression involve,
What does lossless compression in...
21  cards
Hardware and software - 100 - 107
Meaning of hardware,
What is software,
Examples of internal and external...
51  cards
Hardware and software - video 104 - 107
What does paradigm mean in a comp...,
What languages are programs group...,
Summarise machine language
19  cards
Internal computer architrcture
What is the cpu,
What is the ram,
What is the alu and what does it do
32  cards
Internal computer arvhitectures
Summarise von neumann architecture,
Summarise the harvard architecture,
Disadvantages of harvard architec...
21  cards
booleon algebra
What is a half adder,
Summarise a full adder,
A 1
13  cards
Binary
What do the 1s and 0s represent i...,
What is the maximum value that ca...,
How to carry out twos complements
12  cards
Databases
What is a database,
2  cards
half and full adders
What is a half adder,
How does a half adder work,
What is a full adder
3  cards
Databases
Characteristics of serial files,
What are files,
Alternative to a series file
20  cards
Networks and the internet
What is a network topology,
Difference between a bus and star...,
Advantages of a bus topology
44  cards
Moral, social, legal ethical issues
What is automated decision making,
What is artificial intelligence,
Early examples of ai
15  cards
floating point form
What is fixed point binary,
Advantages of fixed point,
Disadvantages of fixed point
4  cards
Input output devices
Types of barcodes,
When are 2d barcodes used,
What are the four types of barcod...
10  cards

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