Practice Micro-operations And Timing (4.8) - Addressing Techniques and Control Unit Design
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Micro-Operations and Timing

Practice - Micro-Operations and Timing

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the first step of a micro-operation?

💡 Hint: Think about what the CPU does first to start executing an instruction.

Question 2 Easy

During which micro-operation is the instruction's opcode read?

💡 Hint: Remember this is the phase where instructions are interpreted.

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Question 1

What is the first micro-operation that a CPU performs upon receiving an instruction?

Decode
Fetch
Execute

💡 Hint: Think about how the CPU begins processing instructions.

Question 2

Is the purpose of the Write-back phase to save the results?

True
False

💡 Hint: What does the CPU need to do after performing operations?

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a flowchart that represents the sequence of micro-operations for a simple ADD instruction.

💡 Hint: Think about the correct sequence of operations and how to depict them visually.

Challenge 2 Hard

Analyze a situation where a CPU jumps to a different instruction. How would the timing signals change?

💡 Hint: Consider how jumping affects the sequence of micro-operations.

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