10 Questions
What is the primary advantage of instruction pipelining in CPU architecture?
Higher execution speed at the same clock speed
Which microcontroller architecture combines elements of both Von-Neumann and Harvard architectures?
Modified Harvard-based Architecture
What is the primary difference between Von-Neumann and Harvard architectures?
Memory accessing methodology
During the instruction life cycle, what occurs after the instruction fetch stage?
Instruction decoding
What is the purpose of the stack pointer in a CPU?
To initialize the stack to the last memory location in SRAM
In a CPU, what is the term for the parallel streaming of instructions to the CPU?
Instruction pipelining
What is the primary advantage of using a Harvard architecture in microcontrollers?
Separate buses for data and instructions
During the instruction life cycle, what occurs before the instruction execution stage?
Instruction decoding
What is the term for the process of fetching instructions from memory and executing them in a CPU?
Instruction execution
Which of the following is NOT a type of CPU architecture?
Pipelined Architecture
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