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Modern Microprocessors.
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Assignment No: 1 MODERN MICROPROCESSORS Name : Perera K.N.S. Index No : 020287 Field : ENTC Date of Per. : 09/09/2003 Date of Sub.: 25/09/2003 Evolution The brain of the PC is a processor (also known as central processing unit, or CPU) based on the Intel 8086 family that performs all executing of instructions and processing of data. Processors vary in their speed and capacity of memory, registers, and data bus. An internal clock synchronizes and controls all the processor's operations. The basic time unit, the clock cycle, is rated in terms of megahertz (millions of cycles per second). Following is a brief description of various Intel processors: 8088 - Has 16-bit registers and an 8-bit data bus and can address up to 1 million bytes of internal memory. Although the registers can process two bytes at a time, the data bus can transfer only one byte at a time. This processor runs in...
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