AQA A-level Computer Science (7517)Specification point 4.7.1.1

AQA 7517 4.7.1.1: Internal hardware components of a computer

The free BugBot lessons that teach this point, a robot to try it on, and the past-paper questions that test it.

Lessons that teach it

  1. A9.1 Hardware, software and the stored program Computer architecture
    Internal components, the three buses and their widths, I/O controllers, the stored program concept, and von Neumann against Harvard.
  2. A9.10 Project: a processor of your own Computer architecture
    Build a von Neumann machine with register transfers, addressing modes, flags and memory-mapped I/O that plays a scale on the robot.

Try it on a robot

The task from A9.1 Hardware, software and the stored program, running here. Change the program and press Run.

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