Tag: cpu
All the articles with the tag "cpu".
Computer Buses and Memory
This article outlines bus architectures and the roles of data, address, and control buses, with examples of bus width and bandwidth. It also describes main memory, cache, and secondary storage and explains memory reads and writes using MAR and MDR.
A Few Things to Know About Computer Organization
This article introduces the five major hardware components and common CPU and memory registers, then uses addition to explain instruction fetch, decoding, and execution. It also demonstrates main-memory capacity calculations using address width, word length, and unit conversion.