Practice - Bus Architecture
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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What does ALU stand for?
💡 Hint: Remember, it's where arithmetic happens!
Name the two types of registers.
💡 Hint: Think about their functions!
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the purpose of the ALU in a CPU?
💡 Hint: Think about what calculations a CPU does.
True or False: The Control Bus carries data between components.
💡 Hint: Recall the specific functions of each bus.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a scenario where an ALU is required to perform multiplication but lacks built-in support for it. Explain how micro-routines could solve this issue.
💡 Hint: Think about how repetition can substitute direct calculation.
Analyze the impact of using a single versus multiple bus arrangements on CPU efficiency. Provide an example illustrating bottleneck scenarios.
💡 Hint: Consider the speed trade-offs between single and multiple pathways.
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