Tuesday, February 8, 2011

INTRODUCTION TO MICROPROCESSORS


A microprocessor is a multipurpose, programmable, clock driven, register based electronic device that reads binary instructions from a storage device called memory, accepts binary data as input, process data according to instructions and provides result as output.




Fig. programmable device

A programmable machine can be represented with four components: microprocessor, memory, input and output as shown above.

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