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Microprocessors Questions and Answers - Hybrid Architecture - RISC and CISC Convergence, Advantages of RISC, Design Issues of RISC Processors - 1

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions about hybrid RISC-CISC processor architectures. The questions cover topics such as the disadvantages of CISC designs, advantages of RISC like simplicity and efficiency, features present in RISC but not CISC like branch prediction and pipelining, characteristics of hybrid architectures, applications of extended RISC instruction sets, examples of hybrid processors, how CISC implements complex instructions, additional functionality that can be placed on RISC chips, and clock cycles needed to start decoding variable length CISC instructions.

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Microprocessors Questions and Answers - Hybrid Architecture - RISC and CISC Convergence, Advantages of RISC, Design Issues of RISC Processors - 1

This document contains 10 multiple choice questions about hybrid RISC-CISC processor architectures. The questions cover topics such as the disadvantages of CISC designs, advantages of RISC like simplicity and efficiency, features present in RISC but not CISC like branch prediction and pipelining, characteristics of hybrid architectures, applications of extended RISC instruction sets, examples of hybrid processors, how CISC implements complex instructions, additional functionality that can be placed on RISC chips, and clock cycles needed to start decoding variable length CISC instructions.

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Microprocessors Questions and Answers – Hybrid

Architecture -RISC and CISC Convergence, Advantages of


RISC, Design Issues of RISC Processors -1
This set of Microprocessor Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Hybrid
Architecture -RISC and CISC Convergence, Advantages of RISC, Design Issues of RISC
Processors -1”.

1. The disadvantage of CISC design processors is


a) low burden on compiler developers
b) wide availability of existing software
c) complex in nature
d) none

2. The RISC architecture is preferred to CISC because RISC architecture has


a) simplicity
b) efficiency
c) high speed
d) all of the mentioned

3. The feature of RISC that is not present in CISC is


a) branch prediction
b) pipelining
c) branch prediction and pipelining
d) none

4. The feature of hybrid CISC-RISC architecture is


a) consume a lot of power
b) not applicable for mobile applications
c) processed by RISC core
d) all of the mentioned

5. Which of the following is an application of RISC architecture by adding more instructions?


a) multimedia applications
b) telecommunication encoding
c) image conversion
d) all of the mentioned

6. Which of the following processor belongs to hybrid RISC-CISC architecture?


a) Intel Pentium III
b) Intel Itanium 64
c) AMD’s X86-64
d) all of the mentioned

7. In order to implement complex instructions, CISC architectures use


a) macroprogramming
b) hardwire
c) microprogramming
d) none
8. The advantage of RISC processors is
a) can operate at high clock frequency
b) shorter design cycle
c) simple and fast
d) all of the mentioned

9. The additional functionality that can be placed on the same chip of RISC is
a) memory management units
b) floating point units
c) memory management and floating point arithmetic units
d) RAM, ROM

10. The number of clockcycles that take to wait until the length of instruction is known in order
to start decoding is
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3

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