4.1 CPU Architecture
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What this topic covers
Section titled “What this topic covers”- Von Neumann model and stored program concept
- Special-purpose registers: PC, MDR, MAR, ACC, IX, CIR, Status Register
- ALU, Control Unit, system clock, Immediate Access Store (IAS)
- Address bus, data bus, control bus — data transfer between components
- Performance factors: cores, bus width, clock speed, cache memory
- Ports: USB, HDMI, VGA
- Fetch-Execute cycle and register transfer notation
- Interrupts: causes, ISR, when detected, how handled