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…
What is Vacuum Diode, Construction, Working and Applications: Construction of Vacuum Diode - Vacuum diode is the simplest form of the electron tube for the production and control of free…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Cache Memory in Pentium Processor: Cache Memory in Pentium Processor - Pentium processors operate at very high clock speeds to provide very good performance. But reading and writing memory off-chip…
Pentium Bus Interfacing: Pentium Bus Interfacing - The Pentium processor has a 64-bit data bus which increases data transfer rates over previous generation processors, and the processor bus is used…