CS501-Midterm
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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 operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?
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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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Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:
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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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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 data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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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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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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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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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” 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 one of the following is the code size and the Number of memory bytes respectively for a 2-address instruction?
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write.
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Motorola MC68000 is an example of ---------microprocessor.
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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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 registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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 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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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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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 of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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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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To access an operand in memory, the CPU must first generate an address, which it then issues to the __________
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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 is a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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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 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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Which one of the following register 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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_________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 field of the machine language instruction is the “type of operation” that is to be performed?
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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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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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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 is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?
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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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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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