National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus

Serial No:
EE-229: Computer
Sessional Exam 1
Organization and Assembly Total Time: 1 Hour
Language Total Marks: 35

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Signature of Invigilator
Wednesday, 14th October, 2020
Course Instructors
Ameen Chilwan, Shams Farooq, Farwa Batool,
Rohail Gulbaz.

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Student Name Roll No Section Signature

DO NOT OPEN THE QUESTION BOOK OR START UNTIL INSTRUCTED.

Instructions:
1. Attempt on question paper. Attempt all of them. Read the question carefully, understand the
question, and then attempt it.
2. No additional sheet will be provided for rough work. Use the back of the last page for
rough work.
3. If you need more space write on the back side of the paper and clearly mark question and
part number etc.
4. After asked to commence the exam, please verify that you have SIX (6) different printed
pages including this title page. There are a total of 5 questions.
5. Calculator sharing is strictly prohibited.
6. Use permanent ink pens only. Any part done using soft pencil will not be marked and
cannot be claimed for rechecking.

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 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus
Question 1 [8 Marks]
Given that we have a 16-bit architecture with FLAGS register given as follows:

15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
0 NT IOPL OF DF IF TF SF ZF 0 AF 0 PF 1 CF

Assuming that all system and control flags are set to zero after each arithmetic operation, find the
values (in hexadecimal) saved in the FLAGS register after the following operations. It should be noted
that the numbers are presented as signed 2’s compliment integers.

a. 8102h + FFFEh [2 Marks]

1000 0001 0000 0010

+ 1111 1111 1111 1110

1 1000 0001 0000 0000 AC=1, P=1, Z=0, S=1, C=1, O=0

FLAGS = 0000 0000 1001 0111 (0097h)

b. 15A0h + 8547h [2 Marks]

0001 0101 1010 0000

+ 1000 0101 0100 0111

0 1001 1010 1110 0111 AC=0, P=0, Z=0, S=1, C=0, O=0

FLAGS = 0000 0000 1000 0010 (0082h)

c. Write an assembly code that finds even parity for the most significant BYTE of si register,
where si register is a 16-bit register. Write code after given lines that will update parity bit in
the FLAGS register. [4 Marks]

mov si,0F798H
add si,01234h

.code
mov si, 0F798h ;Saves the given value in si register
mov ax, si ;Saves the word in si into register ax
mov bl, ah ;Saves the most significant BYTE in bl
add bl, 00h ;This will set all flags in the FLAGS register
;including the parity flag

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 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus
Question 2 [5 Marks]
List the basic components of a computer system and describe their functions and interconnection.
Suppose the system is 32-bits. Briefly describe the effect of 32 bits architecture on the functionality
of basic components. [5 marks]

There are three basic components of a computer system;

1. Processor:

This is the brain of the computer. It controls all the components and operations of the computer
system. In turn, the processor is also divided into three parts: The Control Unit; that controls all
the operations, the Arithmetic and Logical Unit; that performs the operations, and the
Registers; where operands and results are stored.

2. Memory:

Memory refers to the main memory which is composed of RAM, ROM and, to some extent,
Cache.

3. Input/Output:

These are devices used for interfacing with the computer users. These include keyboard,
mouse, monitor, printer, joystick etc. These devices are controlled by an I/O controller that is
connected to the rest of computer components via buses.

4. Interconnect:

Different components of the computer system are interconnected using buses. There are at least
three types of buses: the Data Bus; which transfers data between different computer
components, the Address Bus; which identifies which memory location or I/O device needs to
be read from or written into, and the Control Bus; that communicates the control messages, e.g.
whether data bus needs to be read from or written into.

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 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus
Question 3 [8 Marks]
Implement following C++ code using LOOP statement in Assembly. Update the final value of SI after
execution of the program.

int si=0;

for(int a=4;a>0;a--)
{
for(int b=10;b>0;b=b-2)
{
for(int d=3;d>0;d--)
{
si++;
}
}
}

.data
varA WORD ?
varB WORD ?
varD WORD ?
.code
mov si, 0
mov varA, 4
mov varB, 10
mov varD, 3

LoopA:

LoopB:

LoopD:
mov cx, varD
add si, 1
loop LoopD

mov cx, varB

sub varB, 2
loop LoopB

mov cx, varA

sub varA, 1
loop LoopA

SI = 60

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 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus
Question 4 [6 Marks]
Write an assembly program that copies contents of string1 to copystring in reverse order.

copystring should look like: ‘ssergorp ni si mretdim ruoy’

string1 db 'your midterm is in progress',0

copystring db LENGTHOF string1 DUP('a')

.data
string1 db 'your midterm is in progress',0
copystring db lengthof string1 dup('a')

.code
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ax,0 ; zeroing ax registers
mov si,offset string1
mov CX, LENGTHOF STRING1
dec cx
mov si,0
mov di,cx

l1:
mov bl,string1[si]
mov copystring[di],bl
inc si
dec di
loop l1
mov copystring[di],byte ptr ‘ ‘

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 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
FAST School of Computing Fall-2020 Islamabad Campus
Question 5 [8 Marks]
Consider the following data declaration in hexadecimal (h). Fill in the given memory:

.data
word2 dw -1
list1 BYTE 1,2
quad1 dq 0123456789ABCDEFh
list2 db 10, 041h, ‘A’, 00111111b
string BYTE ‘ABC’,0
list4 WORD 2 DUP(0AB12h)
quad3 QWORD ‘AB’

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
0000 FF FF 01 02 EF CD AB 89 67 45 23 01 0A 41 41 3F
0010 41 42 43 00 12 AB 12 AB 42 41 00 00 00 00 00 00
0020

ROUGH SPACE

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