Question

St. Francis' Convent School
Holiday Homework - Class IX

What's A.L.U.? What does the acronym stand for?

Answer 1

ALU stands for Arithmetic Logical Unit which is the unit used to perform some arithmetic and logical operation in that unit.

Answer 2

A.L.U. stands for Arithmetic and Logic Unit.  It is the core part of the CPU - central processing unit.  ALU is the set of chips, electronics hardware, that performs logic and arithmetic operations on numbers in the binary system with radix 2.  It understands only  0 and 1.

ALU performs additions , multiplications, AND, OR operations or inputting a data from memory or a device or outputting result to memory or device.  All software that runs on computers, is a set of instructions to the processor.  ALU executes all the instructions.

Each type of ALU has a specific machine language.