Practice Instruction Cycle And Micro Operations (7.2.1) - Overview of the Module

Practice: Instruction Cycle and Micro Operations

Lesson 7.2.1Overview of the Module

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Question 1.
List the four phases of the instruction cycle.
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Think about the steps the CPU follows to process an instruction.
Question 2.
What do we call the simple instructions that make up macro instructions?
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Consider what happens at a granular level when an instruction is executed.
3Question 3.
Which phase of the instruction cycle retrieves the instruction from memory?
- Fetch
- Decode
- Execute
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Think about what happens first in the instruction cycle.
4Question 4.
True or False: Micro instructions can execute multiple clock cycles.
- True
- False
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Consider the definition of micro instructions.
Question 5.
Design a simple CPU simulator that illustrates the fetch, decode, execute, and store phases. Show how it handles a set of instructions.
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Think about what each part of the instruction cycle does and how to visually represent it.
Question 6.
Using clock grouping, explain how you would optimize a sequence of instructions that includes both load and arithmetic operations.
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Analyze the dependency between operations to determine which can run in parallel.

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