Quiz submission record for quiz5-1-1 at Mon Jul 19 10:31:41 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
from a hardware perspective, simplicity and regularity provide extreme benefits.  Simplicity and regularity lead to high levels of abstraction and less cost in the hardware's creation

Your Answer for Question 2:
is the write control signal, which must be asserted for a write to occur at the clock edge

Your Answer for Question 3:
the purpose of this add unit is to provide the branch target address by adding the PC+4 and a shift in the instruction address to provide the branch target address.  No because the branch datapath must do two operations: compute the branch target address and compare the register contents.  


Your unique submission ID is quiz5-1-1-cs61c-ce-1090258301-1483.