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The microinstructions stored in the control memory of a processor have a width of $26$ bits. Each microinstruction is divided into three fields. a micro operation field of $13$ bits, a next address field $\text{(X)},$ and a MUX select field $\text{(Y)}.$ There are $8$ status bits in the inputs of the MUX. How many bits are there in the $\text{X} $ and $\text{Y}$ fields, and what is the size of the control memory in number of words?

  1. $10, 3, 1024$
  2. $8, 5, 256$
  3. $5, 8, 2048$
  4. $10, 3, 512$
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MUX has 8 states bits as input lines so we require 3 select inputs to select and input lines.

No. of bits in control memory next address field=26-13-3 =10

10 bit addressing .we have 2^10=1024 memory size

So X,Y size=10,3

So (A) is correct option.

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The number of bits in Control memory =26.
From the given data each instruction divided into op field (13)+X(next address field)+Y(MUX)
8(23) status bits in the inputs of the MUX then three bits in the MUX select field.
No. of bits in control memory next address field=26-13-3 =10
size of the control memory in number of words is 210=1024 words
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