Practice - Clock Cycles and Time Calculation
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Practice Questions
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What are the two main phases of the instruction cycle?
💡 Hint: Think about the sequence of processing in a CPU.
What is the purpose of the Program Counter?
💡 Hint: It helps in managing the execution sequence.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What are the two main phases of instruction execution?
💡 Hint: Recall the basic operations involved in a CPU.
True or False: The Instruction Register holds the next instruction to be executed.
💡 Hint: Consider the roles of different registers in a CPU.
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Challenge Problems
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Calculate the total execution time for a processor running at 2 GHz that executes 10 instructions, each requiring 4 clock cycles.
💡 Hint: Remember to convert clock frequency into time per cycle.
If a processor can address 16K memory locations, how many bits does the address bus use?
💡 Hint: Think about the binary representation required.
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