CS501-Midterm
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What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?
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What does the word „D‟ in the „D-flip-Flop‟ stands for?
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The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.
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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 portions of an instruction represents the operation to be performed?
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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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_____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions.
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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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_____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write.
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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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_______ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value.
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “str R8, 34” of SRC?
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What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.
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Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information
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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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Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language
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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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“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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which type of instructions help in changing the flow of the program as and when required?
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Computer system performance is usually measured by the ---------------
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Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?
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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 is a bi-stable device, capable of storing one bit of information?
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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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To access an operand in memory, the CPU must first generate an address, which it then issues to the __________
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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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Which of the instruction is used to load register from memory using a relative address?
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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 instruction ___________ will load the register R3 with the contenets of the m\emory location M [PC+56]
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Which instruction is used to store register to memory using 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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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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What does the instruction “ldr R3, 58” of SRC do?
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The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ________ data bus.
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There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC
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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 data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices.
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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 is the code size and the Number of memory bytes respectively for a 2-address instruction?
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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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-----------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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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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_____________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 instruction that is being executed?
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What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?
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-------------- performs the data operations as commanded by the program instructions.
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