Computer Science GCSE
Control unit coordination
What Control unit coordination means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Control unit coordination
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Reference: OCR
Decodes instructions and sends control signals that coordinate the other components and the timing of data movement.
Topics that use Control unit coordination
- Architecture of the CPU (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- CPU purpose
- Execute stage
- Fetch stage
- MAR (Memory Address Register)
- Program Counter
- Von Neumann architecture
- ALU operations
- Cache performance
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