Vertical Micro program

Question

A vertical microprogrammed control unit supports 512 instructions. The system is using 8 conditional flags and contains 31 control signals. Each instruction on an average required 1 μ operation. The approximate size of control memory is ________ in bytes.

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Anybody Help me here. Little guidance will be appreciated :)

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Yes, there will be 512 µ operations or 512 µ Instructions(Each instruction has 1 microoperation)Since the question is saying about vertical µ programming, So we need not generate 31 control signals at the same time, So we will use a decoder  of 5 * 32 size which needs 5 bits for control signal field of a control word and since there are 8 flag conditions are used for condition checking, so we need MUX 8*1 using 3 select lines, we need 3 bits for storing this information in control word, Apart from this, since there are 512 micro Instructions present in control memory , so we need 9 bits for the next address field of a control word.

So the size of a control word = 5 + 3 + 9 = 17 bits

Size of control memory = Number of control words(Micro Instructions) * size of each control word

                                      = 512 * 17 bits

                                      = 1088 Bytes

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1088 bytes is the answer

Answer 1

1088 B 

 

Answer 2

Yes . 512 nos instructions( 2^9) correspond to 9 bits.

8 nos FLAGs ( 2^3) correspond to 3 bits and 31 Control Signals ( 2^5) corresponds to 5 bits.

Hence total nos of bits =9+3+5= 17 bits.

Hence the size of Control memory= (512*17)/8 byte =1088 bytes.