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Question: Your task is to compare the memory efficiency
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Your task is to compare the memory efficiency of four different styles of instruction set architectures. The architecture styles are
Accumulator-All operations occur between a single register and a memory location.
Memory-memory-All instruction addresses reference only memory locations.
Stack-All operations occur on top of the stack. Push and pop are the only instructions that access memory; all others remove their operands from the stack and replace them with the result. The implementation uses a hardwired stack for only the top two stack entries, which keeps the processor circuit very small and low cost. Additional stack positions are kept in memory locations, and accesses to these stack positions require memory references.
Load-store-All operations occur in registers, and register-to-register instructions have three register names per instruction.
To measure memory efficiency, make the following assumptions about all four instruction sets: - All instructions are an integral number of bytes in length.
The opcode is always one byte.
Memory accesses use direct, or absolute, addressing.
The variables A, B, C, and D are initially in memory.
a. Invent your own assembly language mnemonics (examples in lecture note provide a useful sample to generalize), and for each architecture write the best equivalent assembly language code for this high-level language code sequence:
A = C + C;
D = A - B;
D = D + A;
b. Label each instance in your assembly codes for part (a) where a value is loaded from memory after having been loaded once. Also label each instance in your code where the result of one instruction is passed to another instruction as an operand, and further classify these events as involving storage within the processor or storage in memory.
c. Assume that the given code sequence is from a small, embedded computer application, such as a microwave oven controller, that uses a 16-bit memory address and data operands. If a load-store architecture is used, assume it has 16 general-purpose registers. For each architecture answer the following questions: How many instruction bytes are fetched? How many bytes of data are transferred from/to memory? Which architecture is most efficient as measured by total memory traffic (code + data)?
d. Now assume a processor with 64-bit memory addresses and data operands. For each architecture answer the questions of part (c). How have the relative merits of the architectures changed for the chosen metrics?
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