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I wanted to know which is the smallest processor memory drive? Will it be the data loggers or is there anything smaller than them?
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The only place where you have an application information on the actual processor is the register, so it is the smallest and largest unit.
Today the processors are more complex and have specialized registers, from 1 bit to high values (512 for example). On the most common architectures nowadays, the general registrants are usually 32 or 64 bits.
Current processors usually have cache memory, so we can call memory (dãã). It is little complicated to talk about it because it mirrors the main memory, depending on how you define it. It can be 1 bit, or it can be 1 byte (I think the most intuitive), or the size of the cache line, 64 bytes in general. It may have a formal definition, but I don’t know. But this isn’t the same processor, it’s only in the same chip.
If you don’t define well what you want to know you may end up knowing what you don’t want, and you don’t even realize.
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Define memory. Give a good whatever you want to know.
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of the same processor, I want to know if the register is the smallest unit.
– caio juniors
I would say that any component that has the ability to store one bit
0or1, could be considered the "smallest memory unit" since the [tag:bit] is the least information we can store.– MarceloBoni
Your question is unclear and I would say that you have a direct relationship with this question.
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