Practice - Hardwired Control - Design Methods and CPU Control Unit
Practice Questions
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What is a hardwired control unit?
💡 Hint: Think about the connection between hardware and control signals.
Name one advantage of hardwired control.
💡 Hint: Consider the performance in terms of speed.
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What primary advantage does hardwired control have over microprogrammed control?
💡 Hint: Consider which aspect relates directly to speed.
True or False: Hardwired control units can easily adapt to changes in instruction sets.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the flexibility of design.
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Given a specific instruction set for a hardwired CPU, design a simple finite state machine that could represent its operation and outline the state transitions.
💡 Hint: Use the specific instruction examples as transitions.
Discuss how a hardwired control unit could be designed to handle conditional branches. What adjustments in circuitry would be necessary?
💡 Hint: Reflect on how conditions change the path of CPU operations.
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