12.2.1 - Unit Summary
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Practice Questions
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What is a single bus architecture?
💡 Hint: Think about how computers simplify communication.
List the main phases of instruction execution.
💡 Hint: Consider the steps you need for executing a task.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a single bus architecture imply?
💡 Hint: Focus on simplicity in this architecture.
True or False: Control signals are not essential in instruction execution.
💡 Hint: Think about what directs operations.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a flowchart outlining the fetch, decode, and execute cycles for a hypothetical instruction in a single bus architecture.
💡 Hint: What are the necessary steps to execute an instruction?
Explain how altering the context of control signals would affect the performance of a CPU processing multiple instruction types.
💡 Hint: Think about the flexibility in managing different tasks.
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