I wanted to know which is the smallest memory unit of the processor? Will it be the data loggers or is there something smaller than them?
What is the lowest memory unit of a processor? [closed]
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asked by anonymous 17.05.2017 / 00:56
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The only place where you have an application information in the effective processor is the register, so it is the smallest and largest unit.
Today's processors are more complex and have specialized registers, ranging from 1 bit to high values (512 for example). In the most common architectures today the general registers usually have 32 or 64 bits.
Current processors usually have cache memory, then we can call memory (dãã). It is little complicated to talk about it because it mirrors the main memory, depending on how you define it. It can be 1 bit, or it can be 1 byte (I guess the most intuitive), or the size of the cache line , usually 64 bytes. It may have a formal definition, but I do not know it. But this is not the same processor, it's just on the same chip .
If you do not define well what you want to know, you may end up knowing what you do not want or even noticing.
17.05.2017 / 01:14