What is a Digital Integrated Circuit?

What is a Digital Integrated Circuit? In an integrated circuit, components such as diodes, transistors, resistors, inductors etc. are integral parts of the chip. And on surface of this chip,…

Continue Reading What is a Digital Integrated Circuit?

Construction and Working of Zener Diode

Construction and Working of Zener Diode: Zener diode, also sometimes called the breakdown diode, is a P-N junction diode specially designed for operation in the breakdown region in reverse bias…

Continue Reading Construction and Working of Zener Diode

Bus Interface in Microprocessor

Bus Interface in Microprocessor: Bus Interface in Microprocessor - A microcomputer consists of a set of components such as CPU, memory, I/O device and these components communicate with each other…

Continue Reading Bus Interface in Microprocessor

8087 Numeric Data Processor

8087 Numeric Data Processor: The 8087 Numeric Data Processor (NDP) is called a high-speed math co-processor. This math co-processor is also known as Numeric Processor Extension (NPX) or Numeric Data…

Continue Reading 8087 Numeric Data Processor

What is Risc Processors?

What is Risc Processors?: What is Risc Processors? - In the previous sections, CISC processors were discussed elaborately. CISC is pronounced sisk, and it stands for Complex Instruction Set Computer.…

Continue Reading What is Risc Processors?

Architecture of Pentium 4 Processor

Architecture of Pentium 4 Processor: The simplified block diagram of internal architecture of Pentium 4 Processor is shown in Fig. 12.60 and the detailed internal architecture of Pentium 4 is…

Continue Reading Architecture of Pentium 4 Processor