1. What is the instruction length of the FALCON-A processor?

2. Which one of the following registers holds the address of the next instruction to be executed?

3. Which operator is used to „name‟ registers, or part of registers, in the Register Transfer Language? Select correct option

4. ___________ or Branch instructions affect the order in which instructions are performed, or control the flow of the program

5. Register-register instructions use ____________ memory operands out of a total of 3 operands

6. The data movement instructions ___________ data within the machine and to or from input/output devices

7. 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 ----------------

8. What is the working of Processor Status Word (PSW)?

9. _____________all memory systems are dumb, in that they respond to only two commands: read or write

10. Which one of the following is the memory organization of FALCON-E processor?

11. Prefetching can be considered a primitive form of-------------

12. ----------are faster than cache memory

13. ________ operation is required to change the processor‟s state to a known, defined value

14. Execution time of a program with respect to the processor is calculated as:

15. Type A of SRC has which of the following instructions? A) andi, instruction b) No operation or nop instruction c) lar instruction d) ldr instruction e) Stop operation or stop instruction

16. There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC

17. _________control signals enable the input to the PC for receiving a value that is currently on the internal processor bus

18. The code size of 2-address instruction is ________________.

19. The processor must have a way of saving information about its state or context so that it can be restored upon return from the -------------

20. FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC _____wide.

21. “If P = 1, then load the contents of register R1 into register R2”. This statement can be written in RTL as:

22. Which one of the following is the memory organization of EAGLE processor?

23. Which instruction is used to store register to memory using relative address?

24. which type of instructions help in changing the flow of the program as and when required?

25. FALCON-A processor bus has 16 lines or is 16-bits wide while that of SRC is __________ wide.

26. The instruction ---------------will load the register R3 with the contents of the memory location M [PC+56]

27. What functionality is performed by the instruction “lar R3, 36” of SRC?

28. Flip-flop is a ____________device, capable of storing one bit of Information

29. To access an operand in memory, the CPU must first generate an address, which it then issues to the

30. Which one of the following register holds the instruction that is being executed?