Advanced CPU Designs: Crash Course Computer Science #9
So now that we've built and programmed our very own CPU, we're going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased from just a few cycles per second to gigahertz!...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! As we’ve discussed throughout the series, computers have come a long way from mechanical devices capable of maybe one calculation per second, to CPUs running at kilohertz and megahertz speeds. The device you’re watching this video on right now is almost certainly running at Gigahertz speeds - that’s billions of instructions executed every second. Which, trust me, is a lot of computation! In the early days of electronic computing, processors were typically made faster by improving the switching time of the transistors inside the chip - the ones that make up all the logic gates, ALUs and other stuff we’ve talked about over the past few episodes. But just making transistors faster and more ...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! As we’ve discussed throughout the series, computers have come a long way from mechanical devices capable of maybe one calculation per second, to CPUs running at kilohertz and megahertz speeds. The device you’re watching this video on right now is almost certainly running at Gigahertz speeds - that’s billions of instructions executed every second. Which, trust me, is a lot of computation! In the early days of electronic computing, processors were typically made faster by improving the switching time of the transistors inside the chip - the ones that make up all the logic gates, ALUs and other stuff we’ve talked about over the past few episodes. But just making transistors faster and more ...
