Question

Early DSP devices contained ____ extension and ____ extension.

(a) addressing, pipelining

(b) instruction, data format

(c) addressing, data format

(d) instruction, pipeling

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Answer 1

Correct option is (b) instruction, data format

Explanation: Early DSP devices contained instruction extension and data format extension. These extensions increase the throughput by saving instruction cycles.