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The central processing unit of the computer system is popularly known as of the computer system.

unit is responsible for performing all the arithmetic operations in the computer system.

Thi register keeps the track of the next instruction to be executed.

is called the main$-$memory of the computer.

The access time of memory is faster as compared to that of main memory.

The group of wires used to connect the components of CPU to transfer the data is called

The time taken by the CPU to fetch an instruction and execute it is called

The group of instructions that a processor can execute is called

bus is used to transfer data from the memory.

The instruction set can be classified as and

The field represents the operation to be performed by the instruction.