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This allows the OS to interact with a device and read its data without knowing the specifics of the low-level hardware being used. Five topics in this unit cover data representation of numbers and text, binary arithmetic using both fixed point and normalised floating point numbers, bitwise manipulation and masks. When inserting data, the preceding node’s link is modified to point to a free memory location to be used as a node, then assigning this location with a value, then adding the link item to the next node. sleep()) to prevent the game refreshing too fast for a monitor, ensuring smooth motion such as at 30fps.

Topics 4-6 cover input, output and storage devices and how these can be applied to the solution of different problems. A Degree Apprenticeship in Software Engineering (where you earn a salary and have your university fees paid) is another possible progression route from this course. However, registered centres for OCR are permitted to copy material from this Specification booklet for their own internal Cambridge and RSA Examinations is a Company Limited by Guarantee. The heap is a dynamic section of memory designed to hold data during runtime, and release it when it is no longer required by the program.This means that any circuit can be built from a single type of logic gate, which reduces manufacturing costs as only one type of gate can only be used. Virtual memory addresses are an example of abstraction by allocating each program with a virtual memory space, which the maps to physical memory. Encapsulation is when data is bundled (encapsulated) together to reduce the code complexity and superfluous code.

This could be, as an example, fetching the address and data requested from RAM, determine that an arithmetic calculation needs to occur, and storing the resulting data back in RAM, or in other registers. There may be also more efficient compiled code, as the computer knows that a specific memory data location will not be changing whilst a program is executing.

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Our A Level will develop the student’s technical understanding and their ability to analyse and solve problems using computational thinking.Some areas of memory cannot be swapped in to and out of virtual memory, such as the operating system itself, which is in the “nonpaged” area. Serialisation, in database management systems, is the principal that transactions cannot start until the previous one has ended.