Miscellaneous
Many computers also contain internal "helper" chips which can't
really be classified as CPU, memory, or i/o device. These include:
- Floating Point Units (or FPUs) that are specialized to perform
floating point (real number as opposed to integer) calculations.
- Signal processing chips that perform fast fourier transforms and
other common signal processing routines.
- Memory management units that coordinate all the different RAM
chips, ROM chips, and memory mapped i/o into one unified address space.