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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is a microinstruction?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a command that tells the hardware what to do.
Question 2
Easy
Name one advantage of horizontal microprogramming.
💡 Hint: Can it allow several actions at once?
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Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What does a microinstruction specify?
- An entire program run
- One or more micro-operations
- Only control signals for one operation
💡 Hint: Think about the smallest command that microarchitecture can understand.
Question 2
True or False: Horizontal microprogramming results in smaller microinstructions compared to vertical.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Remember what horizontal means in terms of the number of bits.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
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.
Question 2
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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