The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded

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Department of Computer Scien

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National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN
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INSIDE THE COMPUTER Important Terminology


‰The unit of data size


¾Bit


: a binary digit that can have the value 0 or 1


¾Byte


: 8 bits


¾Nibble


: half of a bye, or 4 bits


¾Word


: two bytes, or 16 bits


‰The terms used to describe amounts of memory in IBM PCs and compatibles


¾Kilobyte


(K): 2


10 bytes


¾Megabyte


(M) : 2


20 bytes, over 1 million


¾Gigabyte


(G) : 2


30 bytes, over 1 billion


¾Terabyte


(T) : 2


40 bytes, over 1 trillion

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