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Technical Questions Based On Microprocessor

The document discusses technical questions about microprocessors including questions about the CPU, buses, memory mapping, instruction codes, registers, and components of a microprocessor unit. It provides answers to 20 multiple choice questions covering topics such as the ALU, data bus width, hardware, flags, mnemonics, machine code, accumulators, and differences between mnemonic and machine codes.

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Technical Questions Based On Microprocessor

The document discusses technical questions about microprocessors including questions about the CPU, buses, memory mapping, instruction codes, registers, and components of a microprocessor unit. It provides answers to 20 multiple choice questions covering topics such as the ALU, data bus width, hardware, flags, mnemonics, machine code, accumulators, and differences between mnemonic and machine codes.

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Technical Questions based on Microprocessor

● The devices that provide the means for a computer to communicate with the user
or other computers are referred to as: CPU

● The software used to drive microprocessor-based systems is called:


ans. Assembly language programs

● The circuits in the 8085A that provide the arithmetic and logic functions are
called the:CPU. ALU.

● How many buses are connected as part of the 8085A microprocessor?


ans. The 8085 microprocessor has three buses: address bus, data
bus and control bus.

● The ___address decoder_____ ensures that only one IC is active at a time to


avoid a bus conflict caused by two ICs writing different data to the same bus.

● How many bits are used in the data bus?


ans. 32-bit, whereas newer 64-bit systems can handle much greater
amounts of data. Other data bus widths include 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, and
16-bit.

● The items that you can physically touch in a computer system are called:
ans. hardware of the computer.

● Single-bit indicators that may be set or cleared to show the results of logical or
arithmetic operations are the: decisions

● When referring to instruction words, a mnemonic is:


ans. short abbreviation for the operation to be performed.

● The technique of assigning a memory address to each I/O device in the computer
system is called: memory-mapped I/O.

● When was the first 8-bit microprocessor introduced?


ans. 1972
● What type of circuit is used at the interface point of an output port?
ans. Latch

● I/O mapped systems identify their input/output devices by giving them a(n) ___
–___8 bit port number_____.

● What type of circuit is used at the interface point of an input port?


ans. tristate buffer

● The register in the 8085A that is used to keep track of the memory address of the
next op-code to be run in the program is the: the program counter

● The control bus and memories share a bidirectional bus in a typical


microprocessor system.
ans. Only the data bus and memory can share the a bidirectional bus.

● All computer programs for a machine are called: software.

● The 8085A is a(n): a complete 8 bit parallel Central Processing Unit (CPU).

● Because microprocessor CPUs do not understand mnemonics as they are, they


have to be converted to ___hexadecimal machine code._____.

● A register in the microprocessor that keeps track of the answer or results of any
arithmetic or logic operation is the: Accumulator

● What is the difference between a mnemonic code and machine code?


ans. Machine codes are in binary, mnemonies codes are in
shorthand english.

Mnemonies are known as assembly language and machine codes


are known as binary language.

● Which bus is a bidirectional bus?


ans. Data bus
● Which of the following buses is primarily used to carry signals that direct other
ICs to find out what type of operation is being performed?
ans. control bus

● What kind of computer program is used to convert mnemonic code to machine


code?
ans. assembler program

● Which of the following are the three basic sections of a microprocessor unit?
ans. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), the Control Unit and Registers.

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