Chapter 4: Processor Technology and Architecture

Chapter 4: Processor Technology and Architecture

<p>Chapter 4: Processor Technology and Architecture</p><p>1. The set of op codes recognized and processed by a CPU is called the CPU's ______.</p><p>2. The components of an instruction are its op code and one or more ______.</p><p>3. The contents of a memory location are copied to a register while performing a(n) ______operation.</p><p>4. A left ______instruction multiplies a binary numeric value by two.</p><p>5. A(n) ______instruction alters the sequence of instruction execution only if a specified condition is true.</p><p>6. The use of ______instructions simplifies the process of fetching and decoding those instructions.</p><p>7. A(n) ______processor does not directly implement instructions that combine data movement and manipulation.</p><p>8. A(n) ______CPU typically uses variable length instructions and has a large instruction set.</p><p>9. The ______time of a processor is 1 divided by the clock rate (in Hz).</p><p>10. The address of the next instruction to be fetched by the CPU is held in the ______.</p><p>11. ______improves CPU performance by dividing instruction execution into stages and overlapping execution of multiple instructions in different stages.</p><p>12. ______is a CPU performance enhancement technique in which a CPU guesses whether a branch condition will be true or false based on past experience.</p><p>13. The phrase ______describes pipelined instruction execution beyond a conditional branch instruction before the branch condition value is know with certainty.</p><p>14. A microchip containing all of the components of a CPU is called a(n) ______.</p>

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