RMD SINHAGAD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Warje, PUNE
DEPARTMENT OF E &TC

Unit : 01 ES Overview (MCQ)

Sub: IOT Class: - TE

Sr. No. Questions Ans

01 Which of the following allows the reuse of the software and the a
hardware components?
a) platform based design
b) memory design
c) peripheral design
d) input design
02 Which of the following is the design in which both the hardware and c
software are considered during the design?
a) platform based design
b) memory based design
c) software/hardware codesign
d) peripheral design
03 What does API stand for? b
a) address programming interface
b) application programming interface
c) accessing peripheral through interface
d) address programming interface
04 Which activity is concerned with identifying the task at the final d
embedded systems?
a) high-level transformation
b) compilation
c) scheduling
d) task-level concurrency management
05 In which design activity, the loops are interchangeable? c
a) compilation
b) scheduling
c) high-level transformation
d) hardware/software partitioning
06 Which design activity helps in the transformation of the floating point a
arithmetic to fixed point arithmetic?
a) high-level transformation
b) scheduling
c) compilation
d) task-level concurrency management

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07 Which design activity is in charge of mapping operations to hardware? c
a) scheduling
b) high-level transformation
c) hardware/software partitioning
d) compilation
08 Which of the following is approximated during hardware/software a
partitioning, during task-level concurrency management?
a) scheduling
b) compilation
c) task-level concurrency management
d) high-level transformation
09 Which of the following is a process of analyzing the set of possible a
designs?
a) design space exploration
b) scheduling
c) compilation
d) hardware/software partitioning
10 Which of the following is a meet-in-the-middle approach? b
a) peripheral based design
b) platform based design
c) memory based design
d) processor design
11 An embedded system can be defined as a control system or computer a
system designed to perform a specific task. (True or False ?)
a) True
b) False
12 Which functional unit of ARM family architecture is responsible c
for upgrading the address register contents before the core reads
or writes the next register value from memory location?
a. Data bus
b. Barrel Shifter
c. Incrementer
d. Instruction Decoder

13 Which type of non-privileged processor mode is entered due to b

raising of high priority of an interrupt?
a. User mode
b. Fast Interrupt Mode (FIQ)
c. Interrupt Mode (IRQ)
d. Supervisor Mode (SVC)

14 Abort mode generally enters when _______ a

a. an attempt access memory fails
b. low priority interrupt is raised
c. ARM processor is on rest
d. undefined instructions are to be handled

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15 In the process of pipelining, which instructions are fetched from c
the memory by the ARM processor during the execution of current
instruction?
a. Previous
b. Present
c. Next
d. All of the above

16 If the three stages of execution in pipelining are overlapped, how a

would be the speed of execution?
a. Higher
b. Moderate
c. Lower
d. Unpredictable

17 Which parameter/s is/are included in ‘Time to market’ design d

metric of an embedded system?
a. Time to prototype
b. Time to refine
c. Time to produce in bulk
d. All of the above

18 How is the nature of instruction size in CISC processors? b

a. Fixed
b. Variable
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

19 What is/are the configuration status of control unit in RISC a

Processors?
a. Hardwired
b. Microprogrammed
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

20 At an active HIGH reset pin of 8051 microcontroller, for how b

many machine cycles should the positive going pulse be provided, if
the power is switched ON?
a. only one
b. two
c. three
d. four

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21 While designing an embedded system, which sub-task oriented d
process allocates the time steps for various modules that share the
similar resources?
a. Simulation and Validation
b. Iteration
c. Hardware-Software Partitioning
d. Scheduling

22 In DAC 0808, which among the following is configured as a b

reference in addition to R-2R ladder and current switches?
a. Voltage amplifier
b. Current amplifier
c. Transconductance amplifier
d. Transresistance amplifier

23 In LPC 2148, which among the following is/are the functions of c

Mask register?
a. Byte addressability
b. Relocation to ARM local bus for fastest posible I/O timing
c. Treating sets of port bits in the form of group without changing other
bits
d. All of the above

24 What is the size range of the alphanumeric LCDs? b

a. 1 to 8 characters
b. 8 to 80 characters
c. 100 to 150 characters
d. 250 to 400 characters

25 Which type of handshake packet indicates that the device is b

incapable of accepting data as it is supposed to be busy with some
another task?
a. ACK
b. NAK
c. STALL
d. None of the above

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