COMP411 - Exam 1 - MIPS Correct Questions And Correctly Well Defined Answers.
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MIPS
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MIPS
reduced instruction set computer (RISC) - correct answer a philosophy in the design of encoding paradigms that seeks to use simple instructions, optimized for speed, that are uniform in size
microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages (MIPS) -...
reduced instruction set computer (RISC) - correct answer a philosophy in the
design of encoding paradigms that seeks to use simple instructions, optimized for speed, that are
uniform in size
microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages (MIPS) - correct answer a
reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture, first introduced in 1981, that has been
used as an elegant example of instruction sets for the last three decades
instruction set - correct answer the vocabulary of primitive commands
understood by a given architecture
register - correct answer one of the limited number of special locations built
directly in hardware, into which operands can be stored; in typical MIPS notation, indicated with a dollar
sign ($)
word - correct answer the natural unit of access in a computer, usually a group
of 32 bits; the size of a register in the MIPS architecture
data transfer instruction - correct answer a command that moves data
between memory and registers
address - correct answer a value used to delineate the location of a specific
data element within a memory array
byte-addressable machine - correct answer a machine with memory structured
such that every byte has a unique address and can be accessed individually; true of MIPS
alignment restriction - correct answer a requirement that data be aligned that
data be aligned in memory on natural boundaries
, instruction format - correct answer a form of representation of an instruction
composed of fields of binary numbers
machine language - correct answer binary representation used for
communication within a computer syste
opcode - correct answer the field that denotes the operation and formation of
an instruction
operand - correct answer one of the variables necessary for an operation to be
performed
immediate (operand) - correct answer an operand that indicates an actual
explicit value
source (operand) - correct answer an operand that indicates a register from
which a value will be drawn to complete an operation
destination (operand) - correct answer an operand that indicates a register
into which the result of an operation will be stored
R-type (instruction) - correct answer an instruction format that takes 3
operands, as 2 register operands as sources and 1 register operand as a destination; examples include
addi, and, sll
I-type (instruction) - correct answer an instruction format that takes 3
operands, as 2 register operands and 1 immediate (constant) operand; examples include, lw, beq, sb
J-type (instruction) - correct answer an instruction format that takes 1 operand
as a 16-bit constant; only used for "jump" instructions
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