Question 10
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Show understanding of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) processors

Special purpose registers including: Program Counter (PC), Memory Data Register (MDR), Memory Address Register (MAR), The Accumulator (ACC), Index Register (IX), Current Instruction Register (CIR), Status Register. Including: processor type and number of cores, the bus width, clock speed, cache memory. Including connection to: Universal Serial Bus (USB), High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Video Graphics Array (VGA). Describe and use ‘register transfer’ notation to describe the F-E cycle. Including: possible causes of interrupts, applications of interrupts, use of an Interrupt Service handling Routine (ISR), when interrupts are detected during the fetch-execute cycle, how interrupts are handled.