CS501-Midterm
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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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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 instruction “ldr R3, 58” of SRC do?
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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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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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_________control signals enable the input to the PC for receiving a value that is currently on the internal processor bus.
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Which one of the following registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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 does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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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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What functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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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 instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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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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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC _____wide.
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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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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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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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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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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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write.
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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 code size and the Number of memory bytes respectively for a 2-address instruction?
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What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?
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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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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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Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:
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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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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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________ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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How can we refer to an instruction register (IR), of 16 bits (numbered 0 to 15) using RTL?
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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Which of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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In which of the following instructions the data move between a register in the processor and a memory location (or another register) and are also called data movement?
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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 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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