Even the incredibly simple microprocessor shown in the previous example will have a fairly large set of instructions that it can perform.

Here's the set of assembly language instructions that the designer might create for the simple microprocessor in our example:

In some solid state relays, a simple microprocessor does some of the relay logic, but the logic is fixed and simple.

There have been several attempts, including by Intel itself, to end the market dominance of the "inelegant" x86 architecture designed directly from the first simple 8-bit microprocessors.

Then LSI (large scale integration) allowed designers to fit all of the components of a simple microprocessor onto a single chip.

The following diagram shows an extremely simple microprocessor capable of doing those three things:

Here are the components of this simple microprocessor:

Jacobson has said that his group will be able to produce a simple printed microprocessor in late 2001 or early 2002.

Hal believed that the 68000 could be used as a simple embedded microprocessor as well, and used the newsletter to explain how to do that.

Supporting electronics (including a simple microprocessor) were contained within the shell of the game.