Книга: Introduction to Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
The fetch–execute cycle
The fetch–execute cycle
This is the order of operations by a microprocessor and is the cause of all the confusion in the last paragraph.
The microprocessor applies no intelligence at all. It follows the pattern shown in Figure 8.11 regardless of whether it is following the program or it has been fed with a program with an error in it and is now carrying out a totally useless set of random instructions.
Figure 8.11 The fetch–execute cycle
It will follow our instructions so don’t blame the microprocessor – it’s up to us to feed it with something sensible. Always remember GIGO – garbage in, garbage out.
As we have seen, there is nothing inherently different between an instruction and data. They are both binary numbers and the interpretation is only a matter of what the microprocessor is expecting at that particular time.
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- 4.4.4 The Dispatcher
- About the author
- Chapter 7. The state machine
- Appendix E. Other resources and links
- Example NAT machine in theory
- The final stage of our NAT machine
- Compiling the user-land applications
- The conntrack entries
- Untracked connections and the raw table
- Basics of the iptables command
- Other debugging tools
- Setting up user specified chains in the filter table