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How are CPUs programmed?

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Every microprocessor chip, from a CPU to the chips on a stick of RAM, will have a firmware on it. This is a special program written as microcode by the chip manufacturer, almost always hard-coded into the chip's circuitry and not re-programmable once the chip has been produced. read more

CPUs are not programmed. CPUs execute instructions and manipulate the content of their registers (which are used to store small pieces of data during an execution cycle). That’s really all they do, and in a way they’re quite simple. read more

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