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The microprocessor is an integrated circuit that elaborates information in the form of digital signals. Not to be confused with a microcontroller, which embeds many additional devices to control embedded systems.

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Maximum number of opcodes for a microprocessor

You're right to be confused by this question - it's very badly written. However, I suspect that the intent of this question is to determine the instruction word size for the machine. Given the very …
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Is it possible to build a CPU from content-addressable memory?

Practically all modern CPUs do, in fact, contain content-addressable memory. However, they use it only in very specialised areas where its unique advantages make sense, and where its relatively high …
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