Computer Architecture 9-13 Quiz

A _________ accepts and/or transfers information serially.

• shift register

• S-R latch

• parallel register

• FPGA

__________ are bits set by the processor hardware as the result of operations.

• Stacks

• PSWs

• Condition codes

• MIPS

The advantage of __________ is that no memory reference other than the instruction fetch is required to obtain the operand.

• direct addressing

• stack addressing

• register addressing

• immediate addressing

_________ is a pipeline hazard.

• Control

• All of the above

• Resource

• Data

CPUs make use of _________ counters, in which all of the flip-flops of the counter change at the same time.

• asynchronous

• clocked S-R

• synchronous

• timed ripple

_______ instructions are needed to transfer programs and data into memory and the results of computations back out to the user.

• Control

• Branch

• Transfer

• I/O

The advantages of _________ addressing are that only a small address field is needed in the instruction and no time-consuming memory references are required.

• indirect

• register

• direct

• displacement

The _________ table provides the value of the next output when the inputs and the present output are known, which is exactly the information needed to design the counter.

• J-K flip-flop

• Kenough

• FPGA

• excitation

________ instructions operate on the bits of a word as bits rather than as numbers, providing capabilities for processing any other type of data the user may wish to employ.

• Memory

• Arithmetic

• Logic

• Test

For more than four variables, an alternative approach is a tabular technique referred to as the _________ method.

• Quine-McCluskey

• Karnaugh map

• DeMorgan

• Boole-Shannon