Question

The additional functionality that can be placed on the same chip of RISC is

(a) Memory management units

(b) Floating point units

(c) Memory management and floating point arithmetic units

(d) RAM, ROM

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Enquiry is from Hybrid Architecture -RISC and CISC Convergence, Advantages of RISC, Design Issues of RISC Processors -1 in division RISC Architecture of Microprocessor

Answer 1

The correct answer is (c) Memory management and floating point arithmetic units

The explanation: Several extra functionalities, such as memory management units or floating point arithmetic units, can also be placed on the same chip of RISC.