Computer Science GCSE
Low cost and low power
What Low cost and low power means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Low cost and low power
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Reference: OCR
Characteristics of embedded systems that make the system cheap and dependable, with unnecessary hardware and software stripped away.
Topics that use Low cost and low power
- Embedded systems (OCR GCSE)
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