Week1

What's my name!?

• Phellipe

• Felipo

• Felipe

• Phillipe

Answer explanation

My name is Felipe, and I was named after my grandfather Felippe, born in Italy.

1+1

• 00000000002.00

• 22

• 10

• 3

Answer explanation

10 is also accepted, as it is the binary representation of 2!

Fixed circuits have as one of their characteristics:

• Being application specific

• Being easy to implement

• Being as good as the designer

• Being slow

The first "intelligent" machine dates back to

• the 18**s

• To the date ENIAC was created

• 1927

• 1722

The sentence "Component to perform a given action/application that does not change in time" corresponds to which type of technology?

• Computer

• Processor

• VLSI

• Integrated Circuit

What is "Computer Architecture"?

• The study of transistors

• The study of memories

• The study of how components are seen by the user

• The study of how the designer should see the system

Answer explanation

The study of how to design data types, features and operations of a computer system that are visible to the programmers is called computer architecture

The concept of stored computer was introduced by Alan Turing. His machine allowed us to do

• As much computation as the memory (tape) allows

• Any type of computation

• Simple computations only

• None of the answers

What is the main bottleneck of Von Neumann Architecture?

• Complex design with large ISA

• Small memory

• Low processing power

• Bus interference

What Instruction Set Architectures (ISA) defines?

• The functionalities of the circuit

• The set of instructions the circuit must perform at each execution

• The operations a circuit can execute

• The application

Which of these is not part of the 5 generations seen in class?

• VLSI

• ULSI

• Abacus

• Vacuum