I am sure like me, many of you have been fascinated by microchips in laptops, smartphones and calculators. Microchips are the brain of these devices. Though there are many differences between our brain and these microchips, there are some similarities.
Our brain has some specific regions for logical thinking, for important involuntary actions like the beating of heart and breathing and for controlling our voluntary actions like walking, running & eating.
Likewise, there are some specific parts responsible for instruction and data storage, another for memory operation and arithmetic operations.
In fact, IBM has made a chip- TrueNorth, whose working is inspired by the biological brain.
Each chip has its own techniques to improve its performance because each one has its own requirements. The one used in gaming console need to execute different kind of instructions than microchip used in smartphones.
However, there are some common techniques used like instruction pipelining, data level parallelism, instruction level parallelism among many others, which will be discussed in this blog one-by-one.
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