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Control Unit

The control unit is the circuitry that controls the flow of information through the
processor, and coordinates the activities of the other units within it. In a way, it is the
"brain within the brain", as it controls what happens inside the processor, which in turn
controls the rest of the PC.

The functions performed by the control unit vary greatly by the internal architecture of
the CPU, since the control unit really implements this architecture. On a regular
processor that executes x86 instructions natively, the control unit performs the tasks of
fetching, decoding, managing execution and then storing results.

On a processor with a RISC core the control unit has significantly more work to do. It
manages the translation

of x86 instructions to RISC micro-instructions, manages scheduling the micro-


instructions between the various execution units, and juggles the output from these units
to make sure they end up where they are supposed to go. On one of these processors the
control unit may be broken into other units (such as a scheduling unit to handle
scheduling and a retirement unit to deal with results coming from the pipeline) due to
the complexity of the job it must perform.

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