Practice - Minimizing Microinstruction Size
Practice Questions
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What is a microinstruction?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a command that tells the hardware what to do.
Name one advantage of horizontal microprogramming.
💡 Hint: Can it allow several actions at once?
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What does a microinstruction specify?
💡 Hint: Think about the smallest command that microarchitecture can understand.
True or False: Horizontal microprogramming results in smaller microinstructions compared to vertical.
💡 Hint: Remember what horizontal means in terms of the number of bits.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a hybrid microinstruction strategy for a simple operation (like ADD) detailing what would be horizontally and vertically encoded.
💡 Hint: Consider where you need speed and where you can afford some delays.
Explain how utilizing vertical microinstructions could lead to efficiency in a CPU with a large instruction set.
💡 Hint: What happens when you reduce memory usage?
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