#$04-2024-1004-704$

CSCl $150$

Name

AmirAli Knaleghi

Semester

$2024$S$2$

Student #

$814796$

Time

$180$ min

Mark

Full Mark

$30$pt

$2024-08-0909$:$25$

Please remember to write your name and student number. Calculators are not allowed. The consequences of cheating will be severe. For any diagrams, you must use a ruler to receive any points.

Final

$(5$pt$)$ Multiple choice questions

I. Which of the following are NOT devices that can retain information in a CPU?

A$.$ Random Access Memory

B$.$ Registers

C$.$ Cache

None of above

II$.$ Why shouldn't we use Latches directly, instead of flip$-$flops in register designs?

A$.$ Latches are transparent.

B$.$ Latches are too complex.

C$.$ Latches are not synchronous.

D$.$ None of above.

III. In order to select registers to provide input to a functional block in the ALU, which of the following components should be used?

A$.$ Decoder

B$.$ Encoder

C$.$ Multiplexer

D$.$ Multiplier

IV$.$ Which of the following types of delay ignores short bursts of voltages changes in the I$/$O$?$

A$.$ Transport delay

B$.$ Propagation delay

C$.$ Inertial delay

D$.$ None of above

V$.$ How many different values can be represented in an $n-$bit register?

$($A$.)2^n$

B$.2^n-1$

C$.2^{n-1}$

D$.2^{n-1}-1$