Q. The word length of a CPU is defined as

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Q. The register which holds the address of the locating to or from which data are to be transferred is known as

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Q. Which one is required while establishing the communication link between CPU and peripherals?

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Q. Which of the following data transfer modes takes relatively more time?

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Q. Halt operation comes under ………

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Q. The CPU initializes the DMA by sending ………

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Q. In four – address instruction format, the number of bytes required to encode an instruction is (assume each address requires 24 bits, and 1 byte is required for operation code)

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Q. The minimum time delay between the initiations of two independent memory operations is called

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Q. Consider an algebraic system (A,*), where A is a set of all non-zero real numbers and * is a binary operation defined by A* b = ab/4 then (G*) is a

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Q. A 2 level memory has an average access time of 30 ns with cache and memory access time as 20 ns and 150 ns respectively. What is the hit ratio?

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Q. The following are some of the sequences of operations in the instruction cycle, which one is the correct sequence?

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Q. Horizontal micro construction has which of the following attributes?
1) Short formats
2) Limited ability to express parallel micro-operations
3) Considerable encoding of the control information

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Q. The register which keeps track of the execution of a program and which contains the memory address of the instruction currently being executed is known as …………

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Q. Consider the following situation and fill in the blanks:

The computer starts the tape moving by issuing a command; the processor then monitors the status of the taps by means of a ………….. When the tape is in the correct position, the Processor issues a ……………

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Q. For interval arithmetic best rounding technique use is ………..

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Q. Assume that the time required for the eight functional units, which operate in each of the eight cycles, are as follows.

5us, 8us, 64s, 10us, 15us, 12us, 6us, 8us

Assume that pipe lining adds 1 us, of overhead. Find the speedup versus the single cycle data path.

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Q. Assembler directives represent………………
1) Machine instructions to be included in the object program
2) The allocation of storage for constants or program variable

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Q. The bus system of a machine has the following propagation delay times 40 ns for the signals to propagate through the multiplexers, 90ns to perform the ADD operating in the ALU, 30ns delay in the destination decoder, and 20ns to store the data into the destination register. What is the minimum cycle time that can be used for the clock?

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Q. The sequence of events that happen during a typical fetch operation is ?

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Q. In a fully associative cache memory consisting of 256 cache lines of 16 bytes each, a tag field is of 14 bits. Determine the size of cache memory and main memory.

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