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Consider two microprocessors having 8-bit and 16-bit wide external data buses, respectfully. The two processors are identical otherwise and their bus cycles are the same speed.

a. Suppose all instructions and operands are two Bytes. By what factor do the maximum data transfer rates vary?

b. Suppose all instructions and operands are one Byte. By what factor do the maximum data transfer rates vary?



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The amount of data that can be sent by a bus per clock cycleis the bus width of the CPU - in this case 16-bit. So, eachclock cycle, 16 bits of data are
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