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Consider a processor with 64 registers and an instruction set of size twelve. Each instruction has five distinct fields, namely, opcode, two source register identifiers, one destination register r identifier, and a twelve-bit immediate value. Each instruction must be stored in memory in a byte-aligned fashion. If a program has 100 instructions, the amount of memory (in bytes) consumed by the program text is _________.
Correct Answer: A
(i) The opcode- As we have instruction set of size 12, an instruction opcode can be identified by 4 bits, as 24 = 16 and we cannot go any less.
(ii) & (iii) Two source register identifiers- As there are total 64 registers, they can be identified by 6 bits. As they are two i.e. 6 bit + 6 bit.
iv) One destination register identifier- Again it will be 6 bits.
v) A twelve bit immediate value- 12 bit.
Adding them all we get,
4 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 12 = 34 bit = 34/8 byte = 4.25 bytes.
Due to byte alignment total bytes per instruction = 5 bytes.
As there are 100 instructions, total size = 5*100 = 500 Bytes.