SLR01 Structure and Function of the Processor

• 1.1.1a The arithmetic logic unit; ALU, Control Unit and Registers (Program Counter; PC, Accumulator; ACC, Memory Address Register; MAR, Memory Data Register; MDR, Current Instruction Register; CIR). Busses: data, address and control: How this relates to assembly language program

• 1.1.1b The fetch-decode-execute cycle, including its effect on registers

• 1.1.1c The factors affecting the performance of CPU, clock speed, number of cores, cache

• 1.1.1d The use of pipelining in a processors to improve efficiency

• 1.1.1e Von Neumann, Harvard and contemporary processor architecture

Supporting Video(s)

Supporting Video(s)

Follow this link to look at a working model of a CPU. You will need some program code to run through it with, try using the example assembly code from the Google Doc titled 'Example assembly code'.

Supporting Video(s)

Supporting Video(s)

Supporting Video(s)