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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 4: Microprocessor Architecture

Unit 4: Microprocessor Architecture Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
4.1 Microprocessor
4.1.1 The Address Bus
4.1.2 The Data Bus
4.1.3 The Control Bus

4.1.4 X64 vs X86
4.2 Architecture of Microprocessor
4.2.1 Arithmetic Logic Unit
4.2.2 Accumulator
4.2.3 Program Counter (PC)
4.2.4 Address, Data and Status Registers and Stack Pointer

4.2.5 Control Unit
4.2.6 CISC and RISC
4.2.7 Manufacturing
4.2.8 Multi-core Architecture
4.2.9 Von Neumann Architecture
4.2.10 Data Path

4.2.11 Harvard Architecture
4.2.12 Dual-Core vs Quad-Core Architecture
4.3 Microprocessor Operations
4.3.1 Input and Output
4.3.2 Arithmetic Logic Unit
4.3.3 Memory

4.3.4 Control Unit
4.3.5 Information Exchange
4.4 Microprocessor Memory
4.4.1 Actions of the Memory Unit
4.4.2 Memory and Addressing
4.5 Summary

4.6 Keywords
4.7 Self-Assessment Questions
4.8 Review Questions
4.9 Further Reading

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