Practice - Single Instruction in Memory
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Practice Questions
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What is an accumulator?
💡 Hint: Think about where calculations are temporarily stored.
Define the data bus.
💡 Hint: What connects the CPU to memory and other parts?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the address bus do?
💡 Hint: Think of how the CPU tells memory which data to access.
True or False: The memory buffer register is used to store data during both read and write operations.
💡 Hint: Consider its role in data transportation.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple memory organization strategy for a hypothetical CPU that needs to handle 16-bit wide instructions. Discuss the memory bus structure and address organization needed.
💡 Hint: Consider how data flows between the CPU and memory.
Evaluate the impact of reducing the size of memory addresses from 12 bits to 10 bits in a memory organization. What implications does this have for memory access efficiency?
💡 Hint: Think about what it means for the range of memory addresses.
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