Topic 5 Year 7 Computing
| Computing | |||
| Topic | CPU Architecture & Performance | ||
| No of lessons | 6 | ||
| When is it happening | Year 7 Term 3 | ||
| What will students learn | Students will develop their understanding of The CPU and what it does. Learn what the control unit, arithmetic logic unit, cache is and what do they do. Learn about Von Neumanns Architecture and its main features for example accumulator, the program counter (PC) and registers. Students will also learn how the performance of a CPU can be improved by clock speed, number of cores and by increasing the cache. | ||
| Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' | This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Students will know what CPU is and how CPU processes all the data and instructions that make a system work. Students will know about three main parts of the CPU the control unit, the arithmetic logic unit and the cache. The architecture of Von Neumann. Students will know how Performance of the CPU can be improved by clock speed, number of cores and cache size. | |
| This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding | NA. | ||
| Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' | This is the skills that students will meet for the first time in this topic |
Students should be able to identify structure of CPU. Students should be able to identify input and output devices. Students should be able to identify the functions of three different parts of the CPU. Students should be able to justify which part of the CPU can help to improve performance compared to others. Students should eb able to identify and describe the architecture of Von Neuman. Students should be able to justify how Performance of the CPU can be improved by clock speed, number of cores and cache size. |
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| This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop | NA | ||
| Key vocabulary that students should know and understand |
CPU, Data, Instructions, Interact, Components, Control Unit (CU), Execute, Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), Calculations, Logic Operations (AND, OR and NOT), Binary Data, Cache, RAM, Capacity, Von Neuman, Architecture, Input Device, Output Device, Registers, Accumulator, Memory, Program Counter (PC), Memory Address Register (MAR), Clock Speed, Number of Cores, Cache size Central Processing Unit (CPU), Instructions, Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), Binary Data, Input Device, Output Device, Clock Speed, Number of Cores, Cache Size |
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| The Big Question | What is CPU, what it does and how the performance of it can be improved? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic' |
What is a CPU and what does it do? | ||
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What is the control and arithmetic logic unit and what does it do? What is the cache and what does it do? |
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| What is Von Neumann’s architecture? | |||
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How can the clock speed improve the performance of a CPU? How can the number of cores improve the performance of a CPU? How can increasing the cache improve the performance of a CPU? |
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