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- Season 1 Early Computing
- Season 1 Electronic Computing
- Season 1 Boolean Logic & Logic Gates
- Season 1 Representing Numbers and Letters with Binary
- Season 1 How Computers Calculate - the ALU
- Season 1 Registers and RAM
- Season 1 The Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Season 1 Instructions & Programs
- Season 1 Advanced CPU Designs
- Season 1 Early Programming
- Season 1 The First Programming Languages
- Season 1 Programming Basics: Statements & Functions
- Season 1 Intro to Algorithms
- Season 1 Data Structures
- Season 1 Alan Turing
- Season 1 Software Engineering
- Season 1 Integrated Circuits & Moore’s Law
- Season 1 Operating Systems
- Season 1 Memory & Storage
- Season 1 Files & File Systems
- Season 1 Compression
- Season 1 Keyboards & Command Line Interfaces
- Season 1 Screens & 2D Graphics
- Season 1 The Cold War and Consumerism
- Season 1 The Personal Computer Revolution
- Season 1 Graphical User Interfaces
- Season 1 3D Graphics
- Season 1 Computer Networks
- Season 1 The Internet
- Season 1 The World Wide Web
- Season 1 Cybersecurity
- Season 1 Hackers & Cyber Attacks
- Season 1 Cryptography
- Season 1 Machine Learning & A.I.
- Season 1 Computer Vision
- Season 1 Natural Language Processing
- Season 1 Robots
- Season 1 Psychology of Computing
- Season 1 Educational Technology
- Season 1 The Future of Computing
Crash Course Computer Science - Season 1 Episode 9 Advanced CPU Designs
0.00 12 minutes So now that we’ve built and programmed our very own CPU, we’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased from just a few cycles per second to gigahertz! Some of that improvement, of course, has come from faster and more efficient transistors, but a number hardware designs have been implemented to boost performance. And you’ve probably heard or read about a lot of these - they’re the buzz words attached to just about every new CPU release - terms like instruction pipelining, cache, FLOPS, superscalar, branch prediction, multi-core processors, and even super computers! These designs are pretty complicated, but the fundamental concepts behind them are not. So bear with us as we introduce a lot of new terminology including what might just be the best computer science term of all time: the dirty bit. Let us explain.
