What is a Clock Wire in a computer and what is it for?
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It pulses at the clock speed and basically tells all the components to do a step. Whatever operation the computer is trying to do, it first takes the necessary bits from memory and loads them into the correct circuit, and then runs through the circuit, and then takes them from the circuits outputs and put them back into memory.
These operations are happening across thousands of circuits in the computer, and to make sure the signals don’t run over each other or crash into each other, they are all coordinated to happen at the same time.
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