The document discusses the basic characteristics of microprocessors that define their capabilities. It explains that microprocessors are programmable logic devices that read instructions from memory, accept data as input, process it according to instructions, and provide results as output. The three key characteristics that determine a microprocessor's power are its instruction set, word size, and clock speed. The instruction set defines what operations it can perform, the word size determines how much data it can process at once, and the clock speed is how fast it executes instructions.

2. Introduction
•The ease with which computers can process data, store
and retrieve it painlessly have made in office and business
environments.
•Computers can perform all of this because of its brain-
the microprocessor.
•It is the microprocessor that carries out the machines-
instructions as per the program.

3. Microprocessor Basic
• A microprocessor is also called as a CPU is a
multipurpose, programmable logic device(IC) that
reads binary instructions from a storage device called
memory, accepts binary data as input and process data
according to those instructions and provides result as
output.

4. There are some basic characteristics of
microprocessor that define the power and
capacity of microprocessor
The basic characteristics are given below:
1. Instruction sets
2. Word Size
3. Clock Speed

5. Instruction Set
• The possible operations a microprocessor can
execute it is determined through its instruction
set.
• Programs are written for a microprocessor
based on its instruction set.

6. Word Size
• The number of bits processed in single
instruction depend upon the word size of a
microprocessor.
• The word size determines the amount of
information that can be processed and the
amount of RAM memory that can be accessed.

7. Clock Speed
• It is also called clock rate, the clock speed is the speed at
which a microprocessor executes instructions.
• Every computer contains an internal clocks that regulates the
rate at instruction which
• Instructions are executed and synchronizes all the various type
of computer.
• SIMP computer understands 10 instructions, and any program
are written for its

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