The Central Processing Unit (CPU): Crash Course Computer Science #7
Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to build the ticking heart of every computer - the Central Processing Unit or CPU. The CPU's...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, this is Crash Course Computer Science, and today, we’re talking about processors. Just a warning though - this is probably the most complicated episode in the series. So once you get this, you’re golden. We’ve already made a Arithmetic and Logic Unit, which takes in binary numbers and performs calculations, and we’ve made two types of computer memory: Registers -- small, linear chunks of memory, useful for storing a single value -- and then we scaled up, and made some RAM, a larger bank of memory that can store a lot of numbers located at different addresses. Now it’s time to put it all together and build ourselves the heart of any computer, but without any of the emotional baggage that comes with human hearts. For computers,...
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Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, this is Crash Course Computer Science, and today, we’re talking about processors. Just a warning though - this is probably the most complicated episode in the series. So once you get this, you’re golden. We’ve already made a Arithmetic and Logic Unit, which takes in binary numbers and performs calculations, and we’ve made two types of computer memory: Registers -- small, linear chunks of memory, useful for storing a single value -- and then we scaled up, and made some RAM, a larger bank of memory that can store a lot of numbers located at different addresses. Now it’s time to put it all together and build ourselves the heart of any computer, but without any of the emotional baggage that comes with human hearts. For computers,...
