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

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

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

4. Which field of the machine language instruction is the “type of operation” that is to be performed?

5. 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

6. Almost every commercial computer has its own particular ---------- language

7. _____________ controller controls the sequence of the flow of microinstructions

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

9. __________ enable the input to the PC for receiving a value that is currently on the internal processor bus.

10. 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?

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

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

13. 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?

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

15. 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

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

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

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

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

20. ----------are faster than cache memory

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. The external interface of FALCON-A consists of a ______address bus and ______a data bus.

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

29. 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 ----------------

30. There are _________ types of reset operations in SRC