A control unit in industrial automation is like the brain of a system. It's a component that manages and coordinates various tasks within a machine or a process.
1. What is Control Unit?
A control unit in industrial automation is like the
brain of a system. It's a component that manages
and coordinates various tasks within a machine or a
process.
3. Hardwired
Control Unit
• This type of control unit is built directly
into the hardware of the computer. It
uses a fixed set of instructions to control
the data flow within the CPU (Central
Processing Unit). Think of it like a set of
rules hardwired into the computer's
circuits that can't be changed.
4. Microprogrammed
Control Unit
• Microprogrammed control units use
microcode, which is a set of instructions
stored in memory. This allows for more
flexibility since the control unit's
behavior can be changed by modifying
the microcode.
5. Application of Control Unit
Instruction
Fetch
Instruction
Decoding
Operand
Fetch
Execution Write Back
Update
Program
Counter