12.2.2 - Instruction Fetch
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Practice Questions
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What is the role of the program counter in a single bus architecture?
💡 Hint: Think about where the CPU looks for its next instruction.
What does the memory address register (MAR) do?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens before data is fetched from memory.
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What does the program counter do?
💡 Hint: Think about how instructions are processed sequentially in a program.
True or False: The control signals are responsible for directing the ALU on what operations to perform.
💡 Hint: Recall how signals guide the operations in a CPU.
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Discuss how control signals would differ between a simple load instruction versus a complex arithmetic instruction.
💡 Hint: Consider the number of steps involved in executing more complex operations compared to simple memory retrieval.
Evaluate the impact of single bus architecture on modern multi-core processors and how they manage instruction execution.
💡 Hint: Think about how processors have evolved to address limitations of traditional architectures.
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