Introduction
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Word length off computer or microprocessor
Evolution of microprocessor
Evolution on digital computer
Computer generation
• First
• Second
• Third
• Forth
• Fifth
Single chip microcomputer
Embedded microprocessor
Hardware, software, firmware
CPU
• ALU
• Timing and control unit
• Registers
Memory
• Semiconductor memory
• Magnetic memory
• Optical disk
• CCD memory
• Program and data memory
• Destructive and non-Destructive readout
• Direct access storage devices and serial access storage devices
• On-line and off-line memory devices
• Read and virtual memory
• Associative and set-associative memory
• Memory management unit
Buses
• Memory addressing capacity of CPU
• Buses architecture
Processing speed of processor
Classification of computer
Von Neumann architecture of computer
Harvard architecture of computer
Data flow architecture
Operating system
• Multiprogramming
• Multiuser or time-shared system
• Multitasking
Computer network, distributed processing (multiprocessing)
• LAN, MAN, WAN
Multimedia computer
CAD and CAM
• Computer-aided design or computer aided drafting
• CAM
MATLAB
Computer vision
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Voice recognition and response system
AI
Types of microprocessors
• Vector microprocessor
• Array microprocessor or SIMD processors
• Scalar and superscalar microprocessor
• RISC and CISE microprocessor
• Digital signal processor
• Symbolic microprocessor
• I/O processor
• Coprocessor
Virtualization
Input device
Output device
Multifunction devices
Microprocessor application