Practice - Objective 5: Interfacing Mechanism
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Practice Questions
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What is pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about how stages can overlap in a process.
What does RISC stand for?
💡 Hint: Focus on simplified instruction sets.
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Interactive Quizzes
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Which technique improves CPU throughput by overlapping instruction stages?
💡 Hint: Think about how instructions can be processed simultaneously.
Is RISC a type of processor architecture that uses a complex instruction set?
💡 Hint: Consider the design philosophy of RISC.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple instruction pipeline for a hypothetical CPU with three stages: fetch, decode, and execute. Explain how many instructions can be in a pipeline at one time and why this is efficient.
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions flow through different phases.
Analyze a case where using parallelism in data processing leads to performance improvements. Provide a real-world example.
💡 Hint: Think about complex simulations or analyses that resolve over time.
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