Quiz submission record for quiz5-1-1 at Mon Jul 19 02:03:30 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
simplicity allows for instruction set regularity, which in turn allows for the reuse of the same hardware for different instruction types, which means less hardware.

Your Answer for Question 2:
to allow writing to registers

Your Answer for Question 3:
the purpose of the separate adder is to compute branch target addresses.  it would be possible to use a single ALU to compute the branch target address and compare the register contents because an ALU can do addition and subtraction.


Your unique submission ID is quiz5-1-1-cs61c-at-1090227810-1146.