Week 2 Before Class

What's my name?

• Phelippe

• Phillipe

• Felipe

• Felippe

CPU controls the computer

• True

• False

What is "Computer Architecture"?

• The study of transistors

• The study of how components are seen by the user

• The study of how the designer should see the system

• The study of memories

Program Counter (PC) stores

• Address

• Data

• Instruction

The "F" step of instruction processing is known as

• Folding

• Fetch

• Fixing

• Decode

Instruction register (IR) consists of current instruction address

• True

• False

Register and ALU communicates through

• Address Bus

• Data Bus

• Internal CPU bus

What is the main bottleneck of Von Neumann Architecture?

• Complex design with large ISA

• Low processing power

• Small memory

• Bus interference

In fetch cycle MAR gets address from

• PC

• Control Umit

• MDR

Computer memory which allows the simultaneous read and write operations

• ROM

• RAM

• EPROM

• EEPROM