Computers are designed to process character data and can therefore represent characters directly.

​____________________ are storage locations that hold inputs and outputs for the ALU.

A(n) ____________________ instruction accepts two numeric inputs and produces their arithmetic sum.

According to Moore’s Law, the doubling of transistor density is achieved with a 50% increase in unit cost.

Practical optical processors will probably appear first as full-fledged computer processors.

A(n) ____________________ is a measure of CPU or computer system performance when carrying out one or more specific tasks.

The collection of instructions that a CPU can process is called the CPU’s ____________________.

In most CPUs, the ____ is the time required to fetch and execute the simplest instruction in the instruction set.

​Computer systems represent data electrically and process it with ____________________

A processor’s efficiency depends on its ____________________.