STM32 Fundamentals

What is the current interpretation of the ARM acronym?

• Advanced RISC Machines

• Advanced Risk Machines

• Acorn RISC Machines

What is the main advantage of the RISC architecture (over CISC)?

• Higher power-efficiency

• Lower cost

• Higher code density

• Compatibility with legacy code

Which of the following processor is not a RISC?

• x86

• RISC-V

• ARM

• MIPS

Which of the following devices is the least likely to use an ARM chip? Choose best answer.

• Windows gaming system

• Mobile phone

• Raspberry Pi

• Digital camera

Which Cortex version is most likely found on your mobile phone?

• A-series

• R-series

• M-series

• ARM7TDMI

Which processor had the heaviest influence on the original ARM architecture?

• 6502

• 8088

• Z80

• 68000

Which of the following ARM register is not found on other processors?

• Link register

• Program counter

• Stack pointer

• Processor status register

Which ARM processor flag is 1 when the last arithmetic operation produced zero?

• Z-flag

• C-flag

• V-flag

• N-flag

How is the hexadecimal value C0DE usually written in ARM documentation?

• 0xC0DE

• $CODE

• 0C0DEh

• C0DE_16

To extract maximum performance from your microcontroller, you would use these two programming languages.

• Assembly

• C

• Java

• Python