Practical Overview
Most of a processor's operations are performed by one or more ALUs. An ALU loads data from input registers, an external control unit then tells the ALU what operation to perform on that data, and then the ALU stores its result into an output register. The control unit is responsible for moving the processed data between these registers, ALU and memory.
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