Microprocessor

• A combination of registers, adders / multipliers, and FSMs
  1. Something to store values (Registers)
  2. Ways to process data (adders / multipliers / calculators)
  3. Finite State Machines to control the process
• Existed (and still exists!) since the 1970’s

MIPS = a type of processor

• we may need to trace the whole thing @_@
• But abstracting, the 3 thingys that processors have just communicate w/ each other

• Register files are part of the “storage thing”