CPU Architecture Basics

Physical layout depiction of a CPU:

Note the following:

  • CPU (ALU) is only connected to Registers
  • Registers are connected to memory
  • CPU can process an instruction to add to numbers but this operation can only be applied to registers
    • We cannot apply mathematical operations on the memory itself

Registers

- Purpose of Registers

 


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