CS501 Advance Computer Architecture MIDTERM EXAMINATION Spring 2011

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Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
What is the instruction length of the SRC processor?

► 8 bits

► 16 bits

► 32 bits

► 64 bits


Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?

► 28 * 8 bits

► 216 * 8 bits

► 232 * 8 bits

► 264 * 8 bits


Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
“If P = 1, then load the contents of register R1 into register R2”.
This statement can be written in RTL as:

► R1 ¬ R2

► P: R1 ¬ R2

► P: R2 ¬ R1

► P: R2 ¬ R1, P: R1 ¬ R2


Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
The instruction ---------------will load the register R3 with the contents of the memory location M [PC+56]

►Add R3, 56
►lar R3, 56

►ldr R3, 56

►str R3, 56


Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
----------are faster than cache memory
►Accumulator register

►CPU registers

►I/O devices

►ROM



Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
P: R3 ¬ R5
MAR ¬ IR
These two are instructions written using RTL .If these two operations is to occur simultaneously then which symbol will we use to separate them so that it becomes a correct statement with the condition that two operations occur simultaneously?

► Arrow ¬

► Colon :

► Comma ,

► Parentheses ()


Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Prefetching can be considered a primitive form of-------------
►Pipelining

►Multi-processing

►Self-execution

►Exception