CONTROL UNIT

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CPU is viewed as a collection of 2 major components.

1.

Processing section:

includes ALU, shift regs,comparators, multiplexer 2. Control unit: its responsibility is to drive the associated processing h/w by generating a set of signals that are 3/22/12

A control unit has 2 main responsibilities

1.

Instruction interpretation:

the CU reads instructions from the memory. It recognizes the instruction type, gets necessary operands, routes them to appropriate functional units of the exec.unit.

2. Instruction sequencing:
the CU determines the address of the next instruction to be executed and loads it into PC. 3/22/12

Basic concepts
AA 8 AB
A simple register transfer from A to B
A1 A7 A6 A0 A5 A4 E

AA 8 AB

A reg. transfer controlled by an Enable i/p A3 A2

B1

B7

B6 B0

B5

B4

B3

B2

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Convention used to mark individual bits of a register

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