March 2018
Beginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
What is the function of a CPU?
What purpose does a datapath serve?
What does the control unit do?
Where are registers located, and what are the different types?
How does the ALU know which function to perform?
Why is a bus often a communications bottleneck?
What is the difference between a point-to-point bus and a multipoint bus?
Why is a bus protocol important?
Explain the differences between data buses, address buses, and control buses.
What is a bus cycle?
Name three different types of buses and where you would find them.
What is the difference between synchronous buses and nonsynchronous buses?
What are the four types of bus arbitration?
Explain the difference between clock cycles and clock frequency. ...