Practice - Evolution of Processor Architectures: From CISC to Modern Designs
Practice Questions
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What does CISC stand for?
💡 Hint: Remember the term that suggests complexity in instruction sets.
Name one advantage of RISC architecture.
💡 Hint: Think about the instruction lengths.
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What does CISC stand for?
💡 Hint: Focus on the term that suggests complexity.
True or False: RISC architectures only use fixed-length instructions.
💡 Hint: Recall the defining traits of RISC design.
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Challenge Problems
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Assess how the shift from CISC to RISC has impacted modern application software development.
💡 Hint: Consider how architectures affect coding strategies.
Design a basic algorithm illustrating how a hybrid processor might optimize a complex CISC instruction.
💡 Hint: Think about the transformation process from high-level to low-level operations.
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