2011/02/09

Various kinds of Microprocessor


Did you know, what is the microprocessor that?

      Microprocessor or often also written with the symbol μP or UP is a central processing unit (CPU) computer electronic article is made ​​of miniature transistors and other circuitry on a semiconductor integrated circuit.


      In the past, before the development of microprocessors, electronic CPU TTL integrated circuit made ​​of separate, earlier, individual transistors; before that, from vacuum tubes. Even the existing design for simple machines on the basis of mechanical parts such as gear, shaft, lever, Tinkertoy, etc..


      The change or evolution of microprocessors has been known to follow Moore's Law (the founder of Intel), which is the increase in performance from year to year. This theory was formulated that the counting power will double every 18 months, a process that accurately place since the early 1970s.

      I am sure, many of you who are familiar with the types of microprocessor, this time will I present in table form as below.




Description:


Information about this table:


* Date is the year that the processor was first introduced. Many processors are introduced back at the higher clock speeds for many years after the original release date.


* The transistor is the number of transistors on a chip. You can see that the number of transistors on a single chip has risen steadily for many years.


* Micron is the width, in microns, from the smallest wire on the chip. For comparison, human hair is 100 microns thick. As chip feature sizes decrease, the number of transistors increases.

* Clock speed is the maximum level that the chip can be overclocked clock speeds will make more sense in the next section.


* Data Width is the width of the ALU. An 8-bit ALU can add / less / times / etc. two 8-bit numbers, while 32-bit ALU can manipulate 32-bit numbers. An 8-bit ALU must execute four instructions to add two 32-bit numbers, while 32-bit ALU can do it in one instruction. In many cases, the external data bus width is the same as ALU, but not always. The 8088 has a 16-bit ALU and 8-bit bus, while the modern Pentiums retrieve data 64 bits at a time for their 32-bit Alus.


* MIPS stands for "Millions of Instructions per second" or "millions of instructions per second" and is a rough measure of CPU performance. Modern CPUs can do so many different things that MIPS ratings lose a lot of meaning to them, but you can get a general sense of the relative strength of the CPU of this column.




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