CPUs

borderperson19

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I'm reading about computes and learning the basics so please no flaming this nooby. Can some one please help to explain what this means.



This is about as simple as a microprocessor gets. This microprocessor has:

*An address bus (that may be 8, 16 or 32 bits wide) that sends an address to memory
*A data bus (that may be 8, 16 or 32 bits wide) that can send data to memory or receive data from memory
*An RD (read) and WR (write) line to tell the memory whether it wants to set or get the addressed location
*A clock line that lets a clock pulse sequence the processor
*A reset line that resets the program counter to zero (or whatever) and restarts execution
 
Not flaming- but why are you wanting to know all this?

Engineering class? I don't konw the answers to those questions - and don't ever intend to. NOt that it's a bad question - but for the same reason most people don't need to know how to split an atom - this one falls in a similar category for most I'd guess. But I could be surprised - and see alot of people chime in with good answers for ya.
 
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