CS501-Midterm
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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 instruction that is being 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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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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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 one of the following is a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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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 field of the machine language instruction is the “type of operation” that is 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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Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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Which of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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What does the instruction “ldr R3, 58” of SRC do?
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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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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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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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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write
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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 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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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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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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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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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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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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What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?
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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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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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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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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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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 type of instructions help in changing the flow of the program as and when required?
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Which one of the following register 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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_________ control signal allows the contents of the Program Counter register to be written onto the internal processor bus.
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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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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-----------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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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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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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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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