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2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Control Unit
Author : Mark Burrell
Published in: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In this chapter we get to grips with the engine of the processor — the control unit. The use of the control unit is explained, together with how it uses sets of micro-instructions to implement each opcode and run the fetch-execute cycle.