14/01/2015
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Microprocessors are the devices in a
computer which make things happen.
Microprocessors are capable of performing
basic arithmetic operations, moving data from place to place, and making basic decisions
based on the quantity of certain values.
Types of Processors
The vast majority of microprocessors can be
found in embedded microcontrollers. The
second most common type of processors are
common desktop processors, such as Intel's
Pentium or AMD's Athlon. Less common are
the extremely powerful processors used in
high-end servers, such as Sun's SPARC, IBM's
Power, or Intel's Itanium.
Historically, microprocessors and
microcontrollers have come in "standard
sizes" of 8 bits, 16 bits, 32 bits, and 64 bits.
These sizes are common, but that does not
mean that other sizes are not available. Some
microcontrollers (usually specially designed
embedded chips) can come in other "non-
standard" sizes such as 4 bits, 12 bits, 18 bits,
or 24 bits. The number of bits represent how
much physical memory can be directly
addressed by the CPU. It also represents the
amount of bits that can be read by one read/
write operation. In some circumstances, these
are different; for instance, many 8 bit
microprocessors have an 8 bit data bus and a
16 bit address bus.
8 bit processors can read/write 1 byte at a
time and can directly address 256 bytes
16 bit processors can read/write 2 bytes at
a time, and can address 65,536 bytes (64
Kilobytes)
32 bit processors can read/write 4 bytes at
a time, and can address 4,294,967,295 bytes
(4 Gigabytes)
64 bit processors can read/write 8 bytes at
a time, and can address
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (16
Exabytes)
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