Intermediate Computer Architecture & Organization
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What is "microarchitecture" versus "instruction set architecture" (ISA)?

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The correct answer is A) The ISA defines the abstract interface (instructions, registers) a processor presents to software; the microarchitecture is the specific internal implementation (pipelines, caches, execution units) used to realize that ISA

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Correct Answer

The ISA defines the abstract interface (instructions, registers) a processor presents to software; the microarchitecture is the specific internal implementation (pipelines, caches, execution units) used to realize that ISA

Explanation

Multiple different microarchitectures (e.g., different generations of Intel chips) can implement the same ISA (e.g., x86-64), each with different internal designs for performance, power, or cost trade-offs.

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