Practice Control Signal Generation (4.7) - Addressing Techniques and Control Unit Design
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Control Signal Generation

Practice - Control Signal Generation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does RegWrite do?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when an operation generates a result.

Question 2 Easy

Define MemRead.

💡 Hint: Consider when the CPU needs access to data already stored.

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Question 1

What is the purpose of RegWrite?

To read from memory
To write to registers
To control ALU operations

💡 Hint: Consider what happens after an operation outputs a value.

Question 2

True or False: PCSrc controls the operations performed by the ALU.

True
False

💡 Hint: Focus on what PCSrc is responsible for in instruction flow.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a scenario where a CPU instruction fails to execute due to incorrect control signals, analyze which signals could be responsible and suggest a troubleshooting method.

💡 Hint: Consider what operations were intended and how signals interact.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss how the effectiveness of control signal generation can influence the overall performance of a CPU during intensive computational tasks.

💡 Hint: Think about how tasks are queued and executed in a CPU.

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