Faculty of Computers and Information Technology Course Name: Introduction to Computers Instructor: Dr. Mohamed K.

El-Nemr

Year:2013-2014 (Fall semester) Assignment 3 (Marks:15) Time allowed: 9 days

Question I: Find the result of the following operations

123Hardware is the computers physical components. Arithmetic perform operations as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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The processing of a single instruction typically takes four steps Fetching the instructions , Decoding the instructions, Data Transfer (Read the effective address) , and Executing the instructions.

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The processing of a single instruction is called machine cycle. Logical operations involve data comparisons so as to determine whether certain conditions are true or false.

Question II: Solve the following problems

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A memory address bus has n bits and the size of a memory location is 2 bytes. What is the maximum memory size in bytes that can be addressed? Answer: the maximum possible number of memory locations is 2n. If the location size is 2 byte, then the maximum memory size = 2 2n byte.

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What is the bandwidth of a bus with speed 8 MHz and with bus width of 16 bits? Answer: A bus with speed 8 MHz and with width 16 bit can deliver 8 106 16 bit per second or bps. It is said that this bus has a bandwidth of 128 megabit per second.

With best wishes