Practice Example Of A Program (15.5) - Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect

Practice: Example of a Program

Lesson 15.5Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect

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Question 1.
What are the two main phases of program execution?
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Think about what a CPU does when it runs a program.
Question 2.
What is an opcode?
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Consider what instructions tell the computer to do.
3Question 3.
What are the two main phases of program execution?
- Fetch and Decode
- Fetch and Execute
- Decode and Execute
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Think about what these two phases involve.
4Question 4.
True or False: The opcode specifies how data should be stored in memory.
- True
- False
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What do you know about opcodes?
Question 5.
Given a blob of hexadecimal instruction '1A3F', interpret its opcode and operand, and determine its potential meaning in a hypothetical CPU with simple operations.
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Break down the hex to find its components.
Question 6.
If a processor executes an instruction with 4 cycles for fetching and 3 cycles for executing, what is the total clock cycles required? Consider how many instructions are being processed.
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Use multiplication based on the number of instructions.

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