Quiz submission record for quiz5-1-1 at Mon Jul 19 10:48:55 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The benefits of instruction set regularity and simplictiy are being able to simplifies the implementation by making the execution of many of the instruction classes similar and enchancing speed.


Your Answer for Question 2:
The function of the regWrite siginal is to signal went to write the value in the registers.

Your Answer for Question 3:
The purpose of the add unit is to compute the branch target as the sum of the incremented pc.
It is not possible to use a single alu to do the  functions of both the alu and adder of fig 5.10 because you would need to somehow keep state of the branch target then use the alu again to compare the the registers contents.  So, you would need to pass in a set of two differnt input to the alu at different time in the calulation which is not possible.


Your unique submission ID is quiz5-1-1-cs61c-af-1090259335-2007.