A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage...

A control register is a processor register that changes or controls the general behavior of a CPU or other digital device. Common tasks performed by control...

condition Status register, a collection of flag bits for a computer processor Processor register, a component inside a central processing unit for storing...

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer...

instruction address register (IAR), the instruction counter, or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where...

status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status flag bits for a processor. Examples of such registers include...

An index register in a computer's CPU is a processor register (or an assigned memory location) used for pointing to operand addresses during the run of...

A stack register is a computer central processor register whose purpose is to keep track of a call stack. On an accumulator-based architecture machine...

management. Specifically, the following information is stored in the TSS: Processor register state I/O port permissions Inner-level stack pointers Previous TSS...

state. As an example, the status register of the 6502 processor is shown below: These bits are set by the processor following the result of an operation...

the processor has been cleared of all instructions and can proceed free from hazards. All forms of stalling introduce a delay before the processor can...

A register file is an array of processor registers in a central processing unit (CPU). The instruction set architecture of a CPU will almost always define...

computing, a quantum register is a system comprising multiple qubits. It is the quantum analogue of the classical processor register. Quantum computers...

be orders of magnitude worse than on a true x86 processor. The market rejected the Itanium processor since it broke backward compatibility and preferred...

In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed...

main memory, and the processor can retrieve the frame number from the page-table entry to form the physical address. The processor also updates the TLB...

processor (or multiple-issue processor) is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor...

a register (SWAR), also known by the name "packed SIMD" is a technique for performing parallel operations on data contained in a processor register. SIMD...

sleep mode. The hardware registers inside a central processing unit (CPU) are called processor registers. Strobe registers have the same interface as...

A zero register is a processor register that always returns the value zero and has no effect when it is written to. It is found in instruction set architectures...

inside the processor. Logic gate Processor design Microprocessor Multiprocessing Multiprocessor system architecture Multi-core processor Processor power dissipation...

program may be translated into machine code by a compiler. Every processor or processor family has its own instruction set. Instructions are patterns of...

computers. Computer hardware nearly always provides a way to represent a processor register or memory address as an integer. The value of an item with an integral...

execution CPU vulnerabilities A memory that besides registers is directly accessible by the processor, e.g. DRAM in IBM PC compatible computers or Flash/SRAM...

operation by routing the operands from their sources (typically processor registers) to the ALU's operand inputs, while simultaneously applying a value...

the processor register file (so I/O ports begin at RAM address 0) and expanding the I/O port range. Now the first 4K is special function registers, the...

register allocation is the process of assigning local automatic variables and expression results to a limited number of processor registers. Register...

particular logical register, the processor transposes this name to one specific physical register on the fly. The physical registers are opaque and cannot...

retrieving the operands from memory, allocating processor resources to execute the command (in super scalar processors), etc. The output of the IR is available...

location in the main memory, the processor checks whether the data from that location is already in the cache. If so, the processor will read from or write to...