CEA final FALL22

The ABI is the boundary between hardware and software.

• True

• False

Assume an instruction set that uses a fixed 14-bit instruction length. Operand specifiers are 16 bit  in length

What is the maximum number of one-operand instructions that can be supported?

• 256

• 128

• 32

• 512

A number of chips can be grouped together to form a memory bank.

• True

• False

The cache is capable of handling global as well as local variables.

• True

• False

Consider a magnetic disk drive with 4 surfaces, 512 tracks per surface, and 32 sectors per tr is 512 byte. What is the disk capacity?

• 32MB

• 512KB

• 64KB

• 16GB

The unary operation

inverts the value of its operand.

• Not

• Xor

• Or

• Nand

Three of the most common uses of stack addressing are relative addressing, base-register and indexing.

• true

• false

The most important system program is the OS.

• true

• false

When using graph coloring, nodes that share the same color cannot be assigned to the same register

• True

• False

With a batch operating system the user does not have direct access to the processor.

• True

• False