(1) See microcontroller, ECU, process control, industrial automation and control network. (2) Within the CPU, the circuit that locates, analyzes and executes each program instruction residing in ...

The term "central processing unit" (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...

The central processing unit (CPU) is either a dedicated integrated circuit (IC) or intellectual property (IP) core on an IC that processes logic and math. A CPU can handle high-level provisioning of ...