Question

In the operand fetch stage, the FPU (Floating Point Unit) fetches the operands from

(a) floating point unit

(b) instruction cache

(c) floating point register file or data cache

(d) floating point register file or instruction cache

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Answer 1

Right answer is (c) floating point register file or data cache

Easiest explanation: In the operand fetch stage, the FPU (Floating Point Unit) fetches the operands from either floating point register file or data cache.