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OCR: 5-14 COMPUTER ARCHITECTU Central Processing Unit 0 far in this chapter you have learned that computers represent data using series of electrical signals You know that daea can be transported over the data bus or held in memory e in8 computer does more than transport and store data computer S supposed to process data perform arithmetic sort lists format documents anc S on The central processing unit is the cir cuitr y in computer that executes instructions tc process data The central processing retriev es instructions and data from RAM, processes those instructions then places the result s baeh into RAM 60 they can be dis- played or stored. Figure will help you visualize the flow data and instructions through the processor Figure 5-13 The data bus The dat bus transports transports data and ...