A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit ( CPU ) on a single integrated circuit ( IC ), or at most a few integrated circuits.

* Million instructions per second, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance

Machine code or machine language is a system of impartible instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit ( CPU ).

A computer's central processor can only execute program code found in read-only memory ( ROM ), random access memory ( RAM ), or ( for some computers of the 1950s through 1970s ) switches on an operator's front panel.

Originally, it meant the contents of a writable control store ( a small specialized high speed memory ), containing microcode that defined and implemented the computer's instruction set, and that could be reloaded to specialize or modify the instructions that the central processing unit ( CPU ) could execute.

The BookmarkSync client runs as a small program within the computer's system tray and monitors the bookmarks in the user's browser, automatically uploading any changes to a central server.

A Memory Buffer Register ( MBR ) is the register in a computer's processor, or central processing unit, CPU, that stores the data being transferred to and from the immediate access store.

Modern computer games place great demand on the computer's hardware, often requiring a fast central processing unit ( CPU ) to function properly.

Today, the addition of full-motion graphics from the CG and the animation of graphic elements by the CG blurs the line between " character generator " and " computer graphics ", combining the CG's ability to elegantly present graphics and video with the computer's ability to interface with game scoring and timing systems, to keep running totals of an athlete's performance on the field or the court and to derive statistics both for individual players and the teams involved, and to interface with computer systems located at other game venues or at a television network's master control central broadcast center.

Computer modems are often designated by a particular fax class, which indicates how much processing is offloaded from the computer's CPU to the fax modem.

3DMark is a computer benchmarking tool created and developed by Futuremark Corporation ( formerly MadOnion. com and initially Futuremark ) to determine the performance of a computer's 3D graphic rendering and CPU workload processing capabilities.

* Vertex Shader, a type of shader program executed on a computer's graphics processing unit

Other hardware options include PCI / PCIe cards designed for audio processing, which take over audio processing from the computer's CPU and free up RAM.

The Cray-3 / SSS ( Super Scalable System ) was a pioneering massively parallel supercomputer project that bonded a two-processor Cray-3 to a new SIMD processing unit based entirely in the computer's main memory.

All of these devices are meant to be plugged into an ADB, PS / 2, or USB port for transferring the written text into a computer's word processing document for further editing ( such as indentation and font preference ) or printing if so desired.

OOV in text processing stands for ' out-of-vocabulary ', i. e. a word that is not known in the computer's online dictionary.

The Memory Data Register ( MDR ) is the register of a computer's control unit that contains the data to be stored in the computer storage ( e. g. RAM ), or the data after a fetch from the computer storage.

For most Tandy 1000 models other than the compact EX and HX that did not come already equipped with a hard drive, Tandy offered hard disk options in the form of " hardcards " that were installed in one of the computer's expansion slots and consisted of a controller and drive ( typically a 3. 5 " MFM or RLL unit with a Western Digital controller ) mounted together on a metal bracket.

A computer's switched mode Power Supply Unit ( Computer ) | power supply unit.

A valid address in this context is an address within the computer's address space, while a valid value is ( typically ) an unsigned value between zero and the maximum unsigned number that the minimum addressable unit ( memory cell ) may hold.

Nevertheless, it is possible to control the unit by removing the ribbon cable and connecting a serial cable directly from the computer's serial port to the port on the laserdisc player.

The initialism PSU often refers to a Power supply unit, or specifically a computer's Power supply unit ( computer ).

For cost reasons, the unit did not provide for daisy-chaining of further devices on the computer's expansion port.

Rather, they address logical addresses, or virtual addresses, using computer's memory management unit and operating system memory mapping ; see below.

This breakout-box unit features a special COMPUTER IN port for direct connection to the computer's 110-pin expansion bus.

Familiar hierarchies of " things " include a desktop computer's tower unit at the " top ", with its subordinate monitor, keyboard, and mouse " below.

* In multiprogramming systems, the running task keeps running until it performs an operation that requires waiting for an external event ( e. g. reading from a tape ) or until the computer's scheduler forcibly swaps the running task out of the CPU.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

This was designed to use the OpenGL 3D API to access hardware 3D graphics acceleration cards to rasterize the graphics, rather than having the computer's CPU fill in every pixel.

* ICDL Crawler is a cross-platform web crawler written in C ++ and intended to crawl Web sites based on Web-site Parse Templates using computer's free CPU resources only.

Internally, the computer's CPU is built up from a number of separate parts dedicated to a single task, for instance, adding a number, or fetching from memory.

In a process known as Just-in-time compilation, the compiled code is converted into machine instructions that, in turn, are executed by the computer's CPU.

The 40 MHz speed referred to the main logic board clock ( the bus ), the Motorola 68030 CPU, and the computer's Motorola 68882 FPU.

A Softmodem, or software modem, is a modem with minimal hardware capacities, designed to use a host computer's resources ( mostly CPU power and RAM but sometimes even audio hardware ) to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated hardware in a traditional modem.

The 1540 was an " intelligent peripheral " in that it had its own MOS Technology 6502 CPU ( just like its VIC-20 host ) and the resident Commodore DOS on board in ROM – contrary to almost all other home computer systems of the time, where the DOS was loaded from a boot floppy¹ and was executed on the computer's CPU.

The PCjr's 4. 77 MHz Intel 8088 CPU was faster than other computers aimed at the home market, though the PCjr did not run at the full rated 4. 77 MHz because every 4th clock cycle of the 8088 CPU was designated to refresh the PCjr's dynamic RAM as it had no dedicated memory controller ; the computer's effective clockspeed was therefore 3. 58MHz.

* CPU socket, the connector on a computer's motherboard for the CPU

Compared to the in-house designed Amiga sound engine, the PSG could only handle 1 channel of sampled sound, and needed the computer's CPU to process the data for it.

An index register in a computer's CPU is a processor register used for modifying operand addresses during the run of a program, typically for doing vector / array operations.

A digital computer's memory, more specifically main memory, consists of many memory locations, each having a physical address, a code, which the CPU ( or other device ) can use to access it.

Each computer's CPU can have different cycles based on different instruction sets, but will be similar to the following cycle: