Contents of processor and increasing performace
- Created by: nathanking101
- Created on: 03-11-15 10:00
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- Things in a Processor
- Registers
- Program Counter
- Incrementing counter that keeps track of the address
- Memory Address Register
- holds address in the memory of the next instruction to be executed
- Memory Buffer Register
- Holds fetched data from memory ready to be processed
- Current Instruction Register
- Temporary holding ground for instructions
- Program Counter
- Increasing Performance
- Overclocking
- Increasing the clock speed of the cpu so it can do more cycles a second
- Increase bus widths
- Allows more bits of information to be carried at once
- Increasing word size
- Allows to process more bits of information at once
- Overclocking
- Control unit
- Inside the CPU
- Connected to control bus
- Fetches program code from memory
- Arithmetic logic unit
- Digital circuit
- Peforms arithemetic logical operation such as adding
- Clock
- Measured in Hertz (each light flash)
- Timing device that synchronizes the fetch, decode, execute cycle
- Registers
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