Home Work Assignments

Fall 2013, COMP2400 Homework – 1 (8/29) Name: Due date: 9/3

1. Pick up one of your favorite electronic gadget such as cell phone, laptop computer or iPod, and investigate its specs. Answer the followings.

(1) Gadget name:

(2) OS name:

(3) CPU name and clock:

(4) Memory capacity:

(5) HDD capacity:

(6) Interface:

3. Draw the block diagram of the computer, and briefly describe the major function of each component.

4. Convert the following computer clock frequency to clock time, or vice versa. Pay attention to unit.

a. f = 2.5GHz, T =

b. f = 125MHz, T =

c. T = 400ms, f =

d. T = 500us, f =

5. What are the exact numbers for the following memory.

a. 128KB = bytes

b. 8MB = bytes

c. 2GB = bytes

d. 16GB = bytes