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When circuits are organized into a unified system capable of fetching instructions and executing them, we have a , or Central Processing Unit (CPU). The CPU is the culmination of the hardware hierarchy.
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All of this—fetching, decoding, executing—is orchestrated by a micro-architecture of logic gates. In fact, the Control Unit itself is essentially a large, complex combinational circuit built from NAND and NOR gates. When circuits are organized into a unified system
A (CPU) is a complex sequential circuit made of three main parts: we have a