MGMT 1050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Instruction Set, Taschen
MGMT 1050 Chapter 8 Notes – Summary
Introduction
CPU and memory: design, enhancement, and implementation
• The Little Man Computer design, implemented in binary form, may be sufficient to
implement any program.
• It is not necessarily a convenient way to do so.
• It is like traveling overseas by freight steamer instead of by fast plane
• It ight e fu, ut it sure ai’t the easiest ay to get the jo doe!
• Computers today are more sophisticated and flexible, providing a greater variety of
instructions, improved methods of addressing memory and manipulating data, and
implementation techniques that allow instructions to be executed quickly and
efficiently.
• We discussed the principal features of a CPU
• The basic architecture of the CPU, register concept, instruction set, instruction formats,
means of addressing memory, and the fetch-execute cycle.
• We will investigate some of the additional design features and implementation
techniques that help to give the modern CPU its power.
• It proaly o’t surprise you to ko that there are a large uer of differet ays
of performing these tasks.
• At the same time, it is important to recognize, right from the outset, that additional
features.
• A particular choice of organization does not change the fundamental operation of the
computer as we have already described it.
• Rather, they represent variations on the ideas and techniques that we have already
described.
• These ariatios a siplify the prograer’s task ad possily speed up program
execution by creating shortcuts for common operations.
• However, nothing introduced in this chapter changes the most important idea
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