Systems Architecture
Systems Architecture
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ISBN: 9781305080195
Author: Stephen D. Burd
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Word size

  • Word size is the number of bits the central processing unit (CPU) processes simultaneously.
  • Data bus size, instruction s...

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Advantages and disadvantages of increasing word size

  • If the data to be processed is in larger units than thee CPU's word size, the CPU must execute multiple instructions to perform what's logically a single operation.
  • In addition, inefficiencies are compounded as the operation's complexity increases...

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