Question

Short notes on vector processor in computer architecture.

Answer 1

Vector Processors

A vector processor is a central processing unit that can work on an entire vector in one instruction. The instruction to the processor is in the form of one complete vector instead of its element.

A vector processor is also known as an array processor.

Answer 2

vector processor in computer architecture

• Vector processing is a central processing unit that can play out the total vector input using individual guidance.

• The logical and research computations include numerous calculations which require broad and high-power PCs. These calculations when run in a traditional PC might require days or weeks to finish. The science and designing issues can be stated using vectors and matrices utilizing vector processing.
• vector processing reduces the maintenance related to loop-control making it more effective than scalar processing.
• According to the retrieval of operands it is divided into:

1. register to register architecture. Here the results are retrieved from scalar or vector registers.
2. Memory to memory architecture. Here the results are retrieved from the main memory.

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