CS501-Midterm
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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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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC is __________ 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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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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_____________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 “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?
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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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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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The instruction ___________ will load the register R3 with the contenets of the m\emory location M [PC+56]
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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 memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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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 one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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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 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 portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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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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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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“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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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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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 a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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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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How can we refer to an instruction register (IR), of 16 bits (numbered 0 to 15) using RTL?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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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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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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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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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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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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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 does the instruction “ldr R3, 58” of SRC do?
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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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 registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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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_________ control signal allows the contents of the Program Counter register to be written onto the internal processor bus.
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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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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?
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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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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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