CS501-Midterm
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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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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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Which of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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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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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC is __________ wide.
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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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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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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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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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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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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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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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Which one of the following registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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The instruction ___________ will load the register R3 with the contenets of the m\emory location M [PC+56]
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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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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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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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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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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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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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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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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC _____wide.
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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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The CPU includes three types of instructions, which have different operands and will need different representations. Which one of the instructions requires two source registers?
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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“If P = 1, then load the contents of register R1 into register R2”. This statement can be written in RTL as:
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:
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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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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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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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________ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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