Week 3 - CPU, RAM and Firmware

 

CPU firmware and ram work together and rely on each other to function, the CPU is the beating heart, it provides data to the rest of the computer and tells what each component should do, this is not possible with the constant support of ram, without ram the CPU would be really slow due to how fast it can process information. Once the data is in ram the CPU can read it and talk with the firmware or bios about what steps needs to be used. Lets say an audio file plays and the file loads up in ram, the data is sent to the CPU that directs the firmware to enable sound and at what decibels and for how long creating sound. The whole process of creating sound happens so fast that it is hardly known as a delay.