CS501-Midterm
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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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What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?
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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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Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?
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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 operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language?
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What is the size of the memory space that is available to FALCON-A processor?
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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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The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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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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Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?
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Which one of the following portions of an instruction represents the operation 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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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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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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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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FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC _____wide.
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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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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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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 “lar R3, 36” of 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 functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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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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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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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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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 register holds the instruction that is being executed?
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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 registers holds the instruction that is being executed?
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Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands
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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 SRC processor?
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which type of instructions help in changing the flow of the program as and when required?
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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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Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions?
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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 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 registers stores a previously calculated value or a value loaded from the main memory?
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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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To access an operand in memory, the CPU must first generate an address, which it then issues to the __________
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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What does the instruction “ldr R3, 58” of SRC do?
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