Practice - Introduction to the CPU
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Practice Questions
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What does ALU stand for?
💡 Hint: Think of its main function in the CPU.
Name one function of the Program Counter.
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions are executed sequentially.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the main function of the ALU?
💡 Hint: Remember what operations we discussed are handled by the ALU.
True or False: The Program Counter holds the data being processed.
💡 Hint: Think about the role of the Program Counter versus storage registers.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple CPU architecture diagram labeling the ALU, registers, and control unit. Describe how they interact during a simple arithmetic operation like addition.
💡 Hint: Consider the flow of data from memory to ALU, back to registers, and then to memory.
Discuss how increasing the number of general-purpose registers might improve CPU performance. What trade-offs could occur?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between data accessibility and performance.
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