7.2.1 - Instruction Cycle and Micro Operations
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Practice Questions
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List the four phases of the instruction cycle.
💡 Hint: Think about the steps the CPU follows to process an instruction.
What do we call the simple instructions that make up macro instructions?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens at a granular level when an instruction is executed.
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Which phase of the instruction cycle retrieves the instruction from memory?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens first in the instruction cycle.
True or False: Micro instructions can execute multiple clock cycles.
💡 Hint: Consider the definition of micro instructions.
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Design a simple CPU simulator that illustrates the fetch, decode, execute, and store phases. Show how it handles a set of instructions.
💡 Hint: Think about what each part of the instruction cycle does and how to visually represent it.
Using clock grouping, explain how you would optimize a sequence of instructions that includes both load and arithmetic operations.
💡 Hint: Analyze the dependency between operations to determine which can run in parallel.
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