Section 16.6
Review Questions
Bus timing

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1. Which circuit generates a series of regular pulses?

2. Where does the word synchronize come from?

3. Which mineral is often used to make computer clocks?

4. Suppose your computer has a clock rated at 450 MHz. What does this mean?

5. Hertz is a measurement of ______________

6. What is period?

7. In the following picture of a read operation on a simple bus, which time section is when the receiving side can safely pull data off the data wires? (A or B)

8. What keeps values stable when they were being put onto bus wires?

9. Which kind of bus relies on a clock to coordinate all bus activity?

10. Complete the sketch below for a write operation on a simplified bus.