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A microprocessor provides an instruction capable of moving a string of bytes from
one area of memory to another. The fetching and initial decoding of the instruction

takes 10 clock cycles.Thereafter, it takes 15 clock cycles to transfer each byte.The microprocessor
is clocked at a rate of 10 GHz.
a. Determine the length of the instruction cycle for the case of a string of 64 bytes.
b. What is the worst-case delay for acknowledging an interrupt if the instruction is
noninterruptible?
c. Repeat part (b) assuming the instruction can be interrupted at the beginning of
each byte transfer.
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