6 docs tagged with "cpu"

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the component that actually executes a program: it repeatedly

An Instruction Set Architecture is the set of instructions a CPU can execute, plus the rules for

Making a single CPU core faster (higher clock speed, deeper pipelines, wider superscalar execution)

Pipelining overlaps the fetch-decode-execute stages of multiple instructions so that, once the

A simple pipeline gets throughput to about one instruction per cycle. Modern high-performance CPUs

Every instruction a CPU runs goes through the same basic loop: fetch it from memory, decode what it