System Architecture - Purpose of the CPU

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GCSE Computing FlashCards sobre System Architecture - Purpose of the CPU, criado por Miguel Adrian Symonds Orozco em 05-03-2024.
Miguel Adrian Symonds Orozco
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The Purpose of the CPU The purpose of the CPU is to carry out sets of instructions. The CPU carries out instructions by using the fetch-execute cycle (also called the fetch-decode-execute cycle).
What is the CPU? - The Central Processing Unit - It is the brain of the computer
What does its power depend on? - Clock speed - Number of Cores - Cache size
The Fetch-Execute Cycle (Fetch) The CPU fetches data from the memory - Copy Memory address from the program counter to the MAR - Copy the instruction in the MAR to the MDR - Increase the program counter to point the address of the next instruction.
The Fetch-Execute Cycle (Decode) It decodes it to make it easier to understand - The instructions in the MDR are decoded by the CU.
The Fetch-Execute Cycle (Execute) It executes the instructions - The instruction is performed. - This could be. - Load data from memory. - Write data to memory

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