Digital Signal Processors Quiz

What is the primary burden for general-purpose microprocessors?

• Data Read/Write

• Database management

• Word processing

• Mathematical operation

What are Digital Signal Processors specifically designed for?

• Data Processing

• Database management

• Word processing

• Signal Processing

Which architecture is commonly used in DSP processors?

• Single memory bank

• Von Neumann

• Multiple address buses

• Harvard

What is the technique used in DSP processors to increase speed by allowing two or more operations to overlap during execution?

• Saturation arithmetic

• Hardware circular addressing

• Zero overhead looping

• Pipelining

What is the norm in DSP processors regarding replication?

• Multiple CPUs with no arithmetic elements

• Multiple CPUs with one arithmetic element each

• One CPU with one arithmetic element replicated

• No replication of arithmetic elements

What is the purpose of on-chip memory/cache in DSP processors?

• To store program code only

• To overcome the problem of slow external memories

• To increase the size of the processor

• To reduce the speed of execution

Which technique is used in DSP processors to increase the number of operations performed per instruction?

• VLIW processing

• Saturation arithmetic

• SIMD processing

• Superscalar processing

What is the main difference between DSP processors and microcontrollers?

• Microcontrollers have hardware MACs

• DSP processors have flexible bit-level operations

• Microcontrollers have parallel execution units

• DSP processors use Von Neumann architecture

What is the technique for instruction-level parallelism by executing instructions without dependencies in parallel?

• VLIW processing

• Pipelining

• SIMD processing

• Superscalar processing

What is the technique for increasing the instruction rate of a DSP processor by exploiting instruction level parallelism?

• Superscalar processing

• Harvard architecture

• VLIW processing

• SIMD processing