CS501-Midterm
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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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________ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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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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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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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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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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Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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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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Which one of the following registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write.
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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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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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:
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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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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 of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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Which one of the following register holds the instruction that is being executed?
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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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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-----------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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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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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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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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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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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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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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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A 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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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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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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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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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 one of the following registers stores a previously calculated value or a value loaded from the main memory?
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write
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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 is a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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