This document contains 25 questions about computer organization, assembly language, and related topics for an assignment due on August 30th, 2010. The questions cover topics such as how assemblers and linkers work together, how assembly language enhances understanding of operating systems, data representation in different number systems, and characteristics of processor architectures.
This document contains 25 questions about computer organization, assembly language, and related topics for an assignment due on August 30th, 2010. The questions cover topics such as how assemblers and linkers work together, how assembly language enhances understanding of operating systems, data representation in different number systems, and characteristics of processor architectures.
This document contains 25 questions about computer organization, assembly language, and related topics for an assignment due on August 30th, 2010. The questions cover topics such as how assemblers and linkers work together, how assembly language enhances understanding of operating systems, data representation in different number systems, and characteristics of processor architectures.
This document contains 25 questions about computer organization, assembly language, and related topics for an assignment due on August 30th, 2010. The questions cover topics such as how assemblers and linkers work together, how assembly language enhances understanding of operating systems, data representation in different number systems, and characteristics of processor architectures.
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Computer Organization and Assembly Language Fall 2010
Assignment 1 Due Date: 30th August 2010
1. How do the assembler and linker work together'?
2. How will studying assembly language enhance your understanding of
operating systems?
3. What is meant by a one-to-many relationship when comparing a high-
level language to machine language'?
4. Explain the concept of portability as it applies to programming
languages.
5. Is the assembly language for the Intel 80x86 processor family the same as those for computer systems such as the Vax or Motorola 68xOO'?
6. Give an example of an embedded systems application.
7. What is a device driver'?
8. Is type checking on pointer variables stronger in assembly language or
in C++?
9. Name two types of applications that would be better suited to
assembly language than a high-level language.
10. Why would a high-level language not be an ideal tool for writing a program that directly accesses a particular brand of printer'?
11. Why is assembly language not usually used when writing large application programs'?
12. Translate the following C++ expression to assembly language
X = (Y * 4) + 3
13. What is the duration of a single clock cycle (in nanoseconds) in a 3.4 GHz processor? 14. What is the l6-bit hexadecimal representation of each signed decimal integer? a. - 2 6 b. - 4 5 2
15. The following 16-bit hexadecimal numbers represent signed integers.
Convert to decimal.
a. 7CAB b. C123
16. What is the decimal representation of the following signed binary
numbers? a. 10110101 b. 00101010 c. 11110000
17. What is the decimal representation of the following signed binary
numbers? a. 10000000 b. 11001100 c. 10110111
18. What is the 8-bit binary (two's complement) representation of each of
the following signed decimal integers? a. - 5 b. -36 c. -16
19. What is the minimum number of binary bits needed to represent each of the following unsigned decimal integers? a. 4095 b. 6 5 53 4 c. 2134657
20. Why was Unicode invented?
21. What is the largest value you can represent using a 256-bit unsigned integer? 22. What is the largest value you can represent using a 256-bit signed integer?
23. Which flag is set when an arithmetic or logical instruction produces a
negative result?
24. Which Intel processor was the first member of the IA-32 family?
