Electrical Engineering › Section X · Processors and integrated circuit technologies › Topic X.1
The computer system and the processor
Gates, registers, memories and buses come together in one machine: the computer. This topic follows how a processor fetches and runs instructions, shares its buses safely, finds its data and responds to events it cannot predict.
In this topic
- What a computer system does
- Memory, storage and firmware
- The system bus
- Sharing the bus safely
- Worked example: decoding addresses into chip selects
- Inside the processor
- Instruction sets and fetch-execute
- Worked example: how much pipelining saves
- Addressing modes
- Polling, interrupts and DMA
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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