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Which of the following statements are FALSE?
S1: Hardwired control units are slower than micro programmed control units
S2: In micro programmed control unit, even a minor modification require redesign and reconnection of control signals
S3: In vertical micro programmed contrl unit, control signals are represnted as decoded signals
S4: Horizintal programming is more flexoble than vertical programming

(A) All of the above
(B) S1 and S2 only
(C) S2 and S3 only
(D) S1, S3 and S4

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Let us see the statements one by one :

Statement 1 is false since it uses only sequential circuits and no need of additional circuitry as in microprogrammed control unit

Statement 2 is false since the statement is true for hardwired control unit.In microprogrammed control unit changes can be reflected by doing the changes in control word of the control memory.

Statement 3 is false as well since in vertical microprogrammed unit we use encoded form of control signal since say we have 128 control signals then we use 7 bits to represent one of the 128 control signals.

Statement 4 is false as well since in terms of flexibility , vertical microprogramming is the best since in case of modification say we have 128 control signals , in worst case , in case of horizontal microprogramming all the 128 bits of the control word concerned may need to be modified.But in case of vertical microprogramming we need to modify only 7 bits here to do that modifcation.

Hence A) is the correct option.

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