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Jin-Fu Li
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Central University
Jungli, Taiwan
Outline
¾ Functional Units
¾ Basic Operational Concepts
¾ Bus Structures
¾ Software
¾ Performance
Address Data/Instruction
Control Unit
Input/Output System
Memory Input/Output
System Bus
MAR MDR
Control
PC R0
Processor R1
IR .
.
. ALU
Rn-1
n general purpose registers
Memory Input/Output
System Bus
MAR MDR
Control
PC R0
Processor R1
IR .
.
. ALU
Rn-1
n general purpose registers
Disk
OS
routines
Program
t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 Time
Printer
Disk
OS
routines
Program
t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 Time
Solution
1 GHz
4 steps
20 steps
2 GHz
¾ Analogy
If a car is driven to a city 100 km away at 100 km/hr and returns
at 50 km/hr, the average speed is not (100 + 50) / 2 but is
obtained from the fact that it travels 200 km in 3 hours