Practice Objective Assessment (21.5.1) - Memory Organization and Instruction Representation
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Question 1 Easy

What is an accumulator?

💡 Hint: Think of it as a workspace for computations.

Question 2 Easy

Define the role of a data bus.

💡 Hint: What moves information across parts?

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Question 1

What is the primary function of an accumulator?

To store data permanently
To temporarily hold data for processing
To manage memory
To encode instructions

💡 Hint: Think about where most calculations happen.

Question 2

True or False: A narrower memory organization is always more efficient.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider how many bits are actually needed to process instructions.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Calculate the total number of addresses required for a memory with a total capacity of 2^12 bytes organized in 16-bit words.

💡 Hint: Consider how many bytes are in a single word.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a layout for a modular memory system that needs to access 16K of data using 4 4K memory blocks. Explain the role of the address bus in this design.

💡 Hint: Think about how blocks interact to form larger capacity.

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