Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

The 8086 was divided into two main parts. The _____ was the \"brain\" of the pro

ID: 3852339 • Letter: T

Question

The 8086 was divided into two main parts. The _____ was the "brain" of the processor, and had the ALU, general-purpose register, control unit, and flags. The __ contained the segment registers, address adder, instruction pre-fetch queue, and handled all the interfacing to memory and I/O. The coprocessor handled ____ operations. The first processor to bring this coprocessor onto (or inside) the main processor was the _________. The Pentium processor used a ___ architecture, which implies that it has two pipelines. The first pipeline, known as the ______ pipeline, can handle any instruction. The second pipeline, known as the ________ pipeline, can only _____ handle __ instructions. Floating point instructions are first placed in the __ pipeline, where they eventually are placed in the floating point unit: an exception to this rule is that the ___ instruction can stay in the u pipeline since it involves only __ the operands, i.e. no floating-point operations are taking place during the instruction's execution. Using this type of architecture with two pipelines, the Pentium can achieve a maximum throughput of ______ (how many?) instructions per clock.

Explanation / Answer

1)EU(Execution unit)
2)BIU(Bus interface unit)
3)floating point arithmetic
4)secure cryptoprocessor
5)cisc-based architecture
6)U
7)V
8)Shift
9)U
10)
11)arthimetic
12)83 clock cycles(20 stages)