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Fetch!
The CPU unit collects the data from a space called a 'Main Memory' and then puts it in one of its own internal temporary memory areas. |
The name of the internal temporary memory areas inside of the CPU are called 'Registers'.
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The vital hardware path -which it has to travel along to get the next peice of data- is called a 'Address Bus'.
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The address buses data is then passed onto the 'Data Bus'.
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What is the CPU is often referred to as the what of the computer?
A- The brain B- The heart C- The eye |
What proccess does the CPU have to go through to follow through instructions?
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Decode!
This is where the CPU tries to make sense of the data. |
It makes sense of the data by using a set of commandments that are called the 'instruction set'.
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What is the final step?
Fetch --> decode --> ??? |
Inputs and outputs, control unit, immediate access store, backing store and arithmetic and logic areas are all part of what?
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