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A digital computer has a memory unit with 32 bits per word….

A digital computer has a memory unit with 32 bits per word. The instruction set consists of 110 different operations. All instructions have an operation code part (opcode) and two address fields: one for a memory address and one for a register address. This particular system includes eight general-purpose, user-addressable registers. Registers may be loaded directly from memory, and memory may be updated directly from the registers. Direct memory-to-memory data movement operations are not supported. Each instruction is stored in one word of memory.   (a)[2 points]The number of bits needed for the opcode parts [ans1]. mandatory  (b)[2 points]The number of bits needed to specify the register address [ans2] extra credit (c)[2 points]The number bits are left for the memory address part of the instruction. [ans3] extra credit (d)[1 point] Based on the number of bits needed for memory addressing that you have found in (c) what is the maximum allowable size for memory in the above architecture [ans4] i.e. how many unique memory locations can be addressed with that many bits. extra credit For extra credits, you get either full credit or 0 if it is correct or incorrect. No part credit will be given for attempting. The score will be added as fudge points.