23. Von-Neumann Machine Cont.

The CPU has a set of built-in operations (its instruction set) that is far richer than with the Turing machine, including the arithmetic, logic, interrupt facilities, and memory access:
- devices: adders , subtractors , comparators , multipliers , dividers , multiplexers , decoders , and so on.
- ability to branch to another part of a program, if the binary integer in some register is equal to zero (conditional branch),
- stack operations, etc.
The CPU can interpret the contents of memory either as instructions or as data according to the fetch-execute cycle.

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