Recent questions tagged co-and-architecture

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The ability to temporarily halt the CPU and use this time to send information on buses is calleddirect memory accessvectoring the interruptpollingcycle stealing
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An interrupt in which the external device supplies its address as well as the interrupt requests is known asvectored interruptmaskable interruptnon maskable interruptdesi...
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The principal of the locality of reference justifies the use ofvirtual memoryinterruptsmain memorycache memory
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A read bit can be readand written by CPUand written by peripheralby peripheral and written by CPUby CPU and written by the peripheral
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The process of organizing the memory into two banks to allow $8$-and $16$-bit data operation is calledBank switchingIndexed mappingTwo-way memory interleavingMemory segme...
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Identify the devices given below with their $\textsf{IC}$ numbers :$\begin{array}{clcl} \text{(a)} & \text{USART} & \text{(i)} & \text{8251} \\ \text{(b)} & \text{Micro...
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Serial access memories are useful in applications whereData consists of numbersShort access time is requiredEach stored word is processed differently.None of these
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How much speed do we gain by using the cache, when cache is used $80$% of the time? Assume cache is faster than main memory.$5.27$$2.00$$4.16$$6.09$
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A pipeline $P$ operating at $400$ MHz has a speedup factor of $6$ and operating at $70$% efficiency. How many stages are there in the pipeline?$5$$6$$8$$9$
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