Processor components/ performance 1.1.1

Arithmetic & Logic Unit (ALU)

Control unit

Registers: Program counter (PC)

Registers: Accumulator (ACC)

Registers: Memory Address Register

Registers: Memory Data Register (MDR)

Registers: Current Instruction Register
(CIR)

What is a bus?

Data bus

Address Bus

Control Bus

What is meant by pipelining?

What is the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle?

Describe the process of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle. (1)

Describe the process of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle. (2)

What is Von-Neumann Architecutre?

What is Harvard architecture?

Advantages of Von Neumann Architecture:

Advantages of Harvard Architecture:

What is contemporary processing?

Factors affecting CPU performance:
Clock speed

Factors affecting CPU performance:
Number of cores

Factors affecting CPU performance:
Amount/ type of Cache memory