Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume Volume 1
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume A. Basic Components of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) a single microprocessor Many magazines introduce the latest models of CPUs
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume Three Basic Components of CPU (a) Control Unit (CU) extract the instructions from the main memory, decodes them and executes them (b) Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) perform all arithmetic computations and all logic operations (c) Register store temporary data for use
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume B. Bus Connections a collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another CPU Memory chips Bus
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume Three Types of Buses (a) Address bus identify particular memory addresses (c) Data bus carry actual data that is being processed (b) Control bus control instructions between the CPU and other internal devices
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume C. Functions of the CPU (1) Booting Up a Computer System CPUBIOS Free the operating system and its application programs from learning the hardware addresses so they need not be changed when the device details change. Manage data transfer between the operating system ad attached hardware devices. hardware devices. Load the operating system (from the hard disk or floppy disk) (from the hard disk or floppy disk) into RAM. Boot up a computer system. Determine all attachments are in place and optional.
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume (2) Running Program Instructions Registers Registers Registers Registers ControlUnit ALU MainMemory 0000 LDA ADD JPN 300C 000C SUB 2008
Excellence Publication Co. Ltd. Volume Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium and AMD are three common types of CPU. State their differences and compare their advantages and disadvantages.
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