Answer Key: Microprocessors_Worksheet
Answer Key: Microprocessor Worksheet
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Hardware – anything you can see or touch
Software – instructions that the hardware runs -
Fetch – finds the next instruction to be run
Decode – interprets the instruction to be run
Execute – runs the instruction -
Transistors (and wires)
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Few, Simple, Precise
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They can only handle simple instructions, but they can run billions of these simple instructions every second, so the results look amazing
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The NXT-G program is compiled into machine language before it is downloaded to the brick
- NXT-G is a (very) high level language. The brick’s processor cannot understand picture blocks, so each picture block gets compiled into many simple instructions the NXT brick’s processor can understand before they are downloaded.
