CPU Components
This circuit generates regular pulses to synchronize the operations of CPU components.
What is the CPU Clock?
This is another name for the fetch-decode-execute cycle.
What is instruction cycle?
Machine cycle also accepted
This part of an instruction specifies the operation to be performed.
What is the opcode?
An algorithm must have this number of steps to be considered valid.
What is a finite number of steps?
This programming paradigm is based on classes and objects.
What is OOP?
This type of high-speed memory stores frequently accessed data near the CPU.
This register stores the actual data being read from or written to memory.
What is the MDR? Memory Data Register
This term refers to the complete list of machine-level commands a processor understands.
What is instruction set?
This representation of an algorithm uses English-like statements without strict syntax rules.
What is pseudocode?
This stage of the translation process checks whether the program follows grammatical rules of the language.
What is syntax analysis?
This is a system of electrical pathways that transfers data, addresses, and control signals between components of the CPU.
What is a bus?
This is the last stage of the instruction cycle.
What is store?
This instruction type controls program flow.
What are branching instructions?
Debugging and feature updates occur during this stage of the problem-solving process.
What is Implementation and Review?
The programming paradigm that focuses on describing what should be done rather than how to do it is this.
What is declarative programming?
This cache level is located closest to the processor and is usually on the same chip.
What is a L1 Cache?
If the ALU performs a calculation and sends a condition signal back to the CPU, this stage is occurring.
What is Execute?
This architecture typically requires multiple clock cycles per instruction and has a large instruction set.
What is CISC?
Breaking a complex problem into smaller, manageable parts occurs during this stage.
What is Problem Analysis?
This translation stage breaks code into tokens.
What is lexical analysis?
In a multicore processor, there are multiple sets of these components within one CPU.
What are Control Units, ALUs, registers, and cache?
During fetch, the address in this register is copied to the MAR.
What is Program Counter?
In this instruction format, the result of the operation is stored in the accumulator.
What is one address instruction format?
This design methodology involves refining a solution gradually.
What is stepwise refinement?
MATLAB and R are commonly used for this field.
What is scientific or formula based applications/problems?