Quiz submission record for quiz5-1-1 at Mon Jul 19 10:10:39 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The benefits of instruction set regularity and simplicity helps us to deal with complexity. An example of this would be in terms of speed in the carry lookahead.

Your Answer for Question 2:
Regwrite controls the writing function.  It is a signal that must be asserted for a write to occur at the clock edge.

Your Answer for Question 3:
The purpose of the separate adder is to compute the branch target as the sum of the incremented PC and the sign-extended shifted left 2 bits.  An ALU cannot be used to replace the function so fthe ALu and adder because we need the adder to decide whether the incremented PC or branch target should replace the PC based on the zero output of the ALU.


Your unique submission ID is quiz5-1-1-cs61c-av-1090257039-2806.