CS501-Midterm
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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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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The instruction ___________ will load the register R3 with the contenets of the m\emory location M [PC+56]
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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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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________ 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 memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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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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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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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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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program 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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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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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 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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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write
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Which of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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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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Which field of the machine language instruction is the “type of operation” that is to be performed?
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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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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 one of the following is the code size and the Number of memory bytes respectively for a 2-address instruction?
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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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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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Which one of the following is a bi-stable 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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Which one of the following register holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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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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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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?
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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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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 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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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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