• What is the difference between an address bus, data bus, and control bus? What roles do they play and how do they work together to perform a read or write operation? Provide an example of them working together.
• When a CPU is said to be a 64-bit processor, what does that mean? In general, what is the word size and how many addresses can it theoretically support? Explain.
• How many byte-addressable addresses can a 32-bit processor support that has 20 address lines on the address bus between it and main memory? Explain.