21 votes 21 votes Consider the following processor design characteristics: Register-to-register arithmetic operations only Fixed-length instruction format Hardwired control unit Which of the characteristics above are used in the design of a RISC processor? I and II only II and III only I and III only I, II and III CO and Architecture gatecse-2018 co-and-architecture cisc-risc-architecture easy 1-mark + – gatecse asked Feb 14, 2018 edited Dec 1, 2022 by Lakshman Bhaiya gatecse 11.9k views answer comment Share Follow See all 8 Comments See all 8 8 Comments reply Show 5 previous comments Chhotu commented May 1, 2018 reply Follow Share Register-to-register arithmetic operations only Some people are thinking this statement is wrong. But notice keyword arithmetic. 5 votes 5 votes Shaik Masthan commented Nov 25, 2019 reply Follow Share register to register can happen for logic/shift operations also, right ? 2 votes 2 votes Pranavpurkar commented Dec 3, 2022 reply Follow Share @Shaik Masthan Sir, except load/store all the other operations in RISC will be reg-to-reg only right? 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
2 votes 2 votes All are properties of RISC architecture Hence D is answer Prashant. answered Feb 14, 2018 Prashant. comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply Kaluti commented Mar 4, 2018 reply Follow Share can not control unit be vertical microprogrammed or horizontal microprogrammed here 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
1 votes 1 votes RISC processor has all the three given characteristics. So option D is the correct answer. topper98 answered Mar 24, 2020 topper98 comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes Option D) All of these Sanandan answered Sep 16, 2020 Sanandan comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.