Exam 21: Microprogrammed Control

The __________ generated by a microinstruction are used to cause register transfers and ALU operations.

An alternative,which has been used in many CISC processors,is to implement a __________ control unit.

_________ is a subfield that is used to indicate a conditional branch.

Which of the following is a control unit input?

The __________ approach involves the use of a microinstruction address that has previously been saved in temporary storage within the control unit.

It is more difficult to write a firmware program than a software program.

Each microinstruction cycle is made up of two parts: fetch and _________.

In a __________ microinstruction every bit in the control field attaches to a control line.

With _________ encoding one field is used to determine the interpretation of another field.

Which of the following is a LSI-11 microinstruction?

_________ processors,with their simpler instruction format,typically use hardwired control units.

When a microinstruction is read from the control memory it is transferred to a _________.

The principal function of the 8818 __________ is to generate the next microinstruction address for the microprogram.

The standard IBM 3033 control memory consists of ________ words.

Microprogramming became a popular technique for implementing the control unit of CISC processors.

The _________ contains the address of the next microinstruction to be read.

The terms __________ relate to the relative width of microinstructions.

The degree of packing relates to the degree of identification between a given control task and specific microinstruction bits.

The TI 8800 Software Development Board is a microprogrammable 32-bit computer card.

A _________ is a combinatorial circuit that generates an address based on the microinstruction,the machine instruction,the microinstruction program counter,and an interrupt register.