COA_CH10_Pretest

Embedded systems can be found in simple items like coffeemakers and tennis shoes.

• True
• False

PLD means

• programmable logic display
• programmable logic device
• programmers logic device
• programmable language device

The behavioral model of the system is checked against the simulated processor in a process called ________________.

• coverification
• covalidation
• coverance
• conherance

________________ specifications include provisions for timers, signals, shared memory, scheduling, and mutexes.

• POSIX reel-time
• POSIX mean-time
• POSIX real-time
• POSIX read-time

An ICE is a test instrument that integrates microprocessor execution control, memory access (read/write), and real-time trace, among other things.

• True
• False

Embedded operating systems allow direct hardware access.

• True
• False

The embedded systems programmer typically writes programs exclusively in ________________ and does not have the luxury of after-the-fact performance tuning.

• assembly language
• machine language
• code language
• binary language

PLA and PAL chips are referred to as complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs).

• True
• False

In embedded systems, the events can happen asynchronously and can occur in any order.

• True
• False

________________ are invoked in response to various signals as they are raised on the pins of the processor.

• ISR programs
• IRS programs
• SRI programs
• SIR programs