General Computer Architecture

Architecture.

  • CPU – accesses main memory to obtain its instructions and then executes them.

  • RAM – volatile memory that is much slower than CPU.

  • Cache – faster than RAM, but still slower than CPU.

  • MMU – Memory Management Unit to help find where the data is stored (RAM or Cache).

  • TLB – Translation Lookaside Buffer is a special cache for MMU to translate memory addresses.

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