CS501-Midterm
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Which one of the following is the highest level of abstraction in digital design in which the computer architect views the system for the description of system components and their interconnections?
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_________ control signal allows the contents of the Program Counter register to be written onto the internal processor bus.
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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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For any of the instructions that are a part of the instruction set of the SRC, there are cerain_________required; which may be used to select the appropriate function for the ALU to be performed, to select the appropriate registers, or the appropriate memory location.
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Which one of the following register(s) contain(s) the address of the place the CPU wants to work with in the main memory and is/are directly connected to the RAM chips on the motherboard?
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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Which one of the following is a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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In which one of the following techniques, the time a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched from memory is minimized? Select correct option:
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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC is __________ wide.
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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-----------is the ability of application software to operate on models of equipment newer than the model for which it was originally developed. Select correct option:
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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To access an operand in memory, the CPU must first generate an address, which it then issues to the __________
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write.
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Which one of the following register holds the instruction that is being executed?
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In which one of the following addressing modes, the value to be stored in memory is obtained by directly retrieving it from another memory location?
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Which one of the following registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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________ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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Which field of the machine language instruction is the “type of operation” that is to be performed?
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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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An “assembler” that runs on one processor and translates an assembly language program written for another processor into the machine language of the other processor is called a ----------------
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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC _____wide.
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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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Identify the opcode, destination register (DR), source registers (SA and SB i/e source register A and source register B) from the following example. ADD R1, R2, R3
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For the __________ type instructions, we require a register to hold the data that is to be loaded from the memory, or stored back to the memory
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which type of instructions help in changing the flow of the program as and when required?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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Which one of the following registers stores a previously calculated value or a value loaded from the main memory?
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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:
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What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?
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Which of the following can be defined as an address of the operand in a computer type instruction or the target address in a branch type instruction?
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Which one of the following register(s) that is/are programmer invisible and is/are required to hold an operand or result value while the bus is busy transmitting some other value?
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___________ or Branch instructions affect the order in which instructions are performed, or control the flow of the program
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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