Practice - Need for Indirect Cycles
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Practice Questions
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What does the Program Counter (PC) do?
💡 Hint: Think about where the CPU gets its instructions from.
What are the names of the two special purpose registers used in the fetch cycle?
💡 Hint: Consider the registers that help manage memory access.
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What register holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched?
💡 Hint: Think about which component keeps track of processing order.
True or False: The Memory Buffer Register directly holds the address of the next instruction.
💡 Hint: Consider what each register's primary function is.
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Design a simple CPU operation using direct and indirect addressing. Explain how the fetch process differs between them.
💡 Hint: Think about how memory addressing can be structured differently.
Discuss potential optimizations that could reduce the clock cycle time during the fetch process while ensuring correctness.
💡 Hint: Consider how different stages might be overlapped in a streamlined process.
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