Crossword Puzzle Retest
Across
- 3. Page not present triggering handler (5 letters)
- 4. L1/L2 speedup for frequent data access (5 letters)
- 5. GHz measure of instruction throughput (9 letters)
- 6. Transfers data between reg/mem (3 letters)
- 7. Second stage parsing opcode and operands (6 letters)
- 9. Overlap fetch/decode/execute stages (8 letters)
- 14. Third stage performing ALU operation (7 letters)
- 16. Destination index for string ops (3 letters)
- 17. Software invoked exception like INT (4 letters)
- 19. Initial bytes defining instr type (6 letters)
- 20. Base register for memory offsets (3 letters)
- 21. 32-bit data path in classic x86 (3 letters)
Down
- 1. Firmware translating complex instruction (8 letters)
- 2. Subtract one updating ZF (3 letters)
- 3. First stage pulling instruction from memory (5 letters)
- 8. Source index for string copies (3 letters)
- 10. Hardware signal pausing CPU for I/O (9 letters)
- 11. Counter for LOOP and REP instr (3 letters)
- 12. Atomically add one to operand (3 letters)
- 13. Eight 32-bit GPRs in x86 core (9 letters)
- 14. Base for parameter passing (3 letters)
- 15. Accumulator for arithmetic results (3 letters)
- 18. Two's complement negation (3 letters)