Systems Architecture
Systems Architecture
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ISBN: 9781305080195
Author: Stephen D. Burd
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 1VE
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1 divided by the clock rate (in hertz) is the cycle time of a processor.

Hence, the correct answer is “cycle”.

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Cycle time of a processor

  • A clock cycle or simply a cycle is a single electronic pulse of a central processing unit (CPU).
  • A CPU can perform a basic operation such as fetching an instruction, accessing memory or writing data during each cycle.
  • Since only simple commands can be performed during each cycle, most CPU processes require multiple clock cycles.
  • The frequency of a processor is determined by clock cycles per second.
  • The frequency of a processor is also known as processor’s clock speed.

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