BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arithmetic Logic Unit, Central Processing Unit, Hertz
29 May 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Traditional microcomputer microprocessors are intel and amd. Multicore processors (2, 4, 6, 8) have more than one processor "core" on a single silicon chip, which allows computers to run faster. A graphic processing unit (gpu) is a specialized processor used to manipulate 3- dimensional (3-d) computer graphics. Every microprocessor contains a. system clock, which controls how fast all the operations within a computer take place (the chip"s processing speed) Older cpu processing speeds are in megahertz (1 mhz=1 million cycles per second) Current cpu processing speeds are in gigahertz (1 ghz=1 billion cycles per second) The faster cpu runs, the more power it consumes, and the more heat it generates. The central processing unit and the machine cycle. The cpu, for central processing unit, is the "brain" of the computers; it follows the instructions of the software (program) to manipulate data into information.
