Section 8.7
Review Questions
An alternate organization
  1. If a design continues to work successfully even when we increase the size of the component, we say the design ___________________.
  1. Why is the CSC-1 design unable to withstand lots of new instructions?
  1. Define bus as it is used in computer architecture.
  1. What does the +1 register do in the CSC-2 design?
  1. What type of gate is used to connect the outputs of the various registers in the CSC-2 to the A bus and B bus?
  1. Why is the MBR the only register in the CSC-2 that still needs a mux to control its input wires?
  1. Besides the +1 register, which other register is new in the CSC-2 and why is it needed?