Practice - PC_Increment: Increment the Program Counter
Practice Questions
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What does the Program Counter (PC) do in the CPU?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens to instruction sequences.
Why is it necessary to increment the PC?
💡 Hint: Consider the flow of program execution.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What happens to the Program Counter after an instruction is executed?
💡 Hint: Consider what it means to execute a sequence.
True or False: The control signals are unnecessary for the increment operation.
💡 Hint: Think about the role of control signals in any operation.
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Challenge Problems
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In a hypothetical scenario, the PC is not incrementing correctly due to a faulty control signal. Describe the potential impacts this defect could have on program execution.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens during a typical fetch-decode-execute cycle.
Given a simplistic instruction set where every instruction requires only one clock cycle to complete, calculate how many instructions can be successfully executed in a second if the PC increments every cycle correctly. What factors could reduce this rate?
💡 Hint: Think about how clocks regulate CPU operations.
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