Computercontroltechnology1ComputerstructureandfunctionThissectionintroducestheinternalarchitectureofacomputeranddescribeshowinstructionsarestoredandinterpretedandexplainshowtheinstructionexecutioncycleisbrokendownintoitsvariouscomponents
Atthemostbasiclevel,acomputersimplyexecutesbinary-codedresults
Forageneral-purposeprogrammablecomputer,fournecessaryelementsarethememory,centralprocessingunit(CPU,orsimplyprocessor),anexternalprocessorbus,andaninput/outputsystemasindicatedinFig
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3-1A-1BasicelementsofacomputerThememorystoresinstructionsanddata
TheCPUreadsandinterpretstheinstructions,readsthedatarequiredbyeachinstruction,executestheactionrequiredbytheinstruction,andstorestheresultsbackinmemory
OneoftheactionsthatisrequiredoftheCPUistoreaddatafromorwritedatatoanexternaldevice
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