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" " Question 1 A commercial interface unit uses different names for the handshake lines associated with the transfer of data from the I/O device into the interface unit. The interface input handshake line is labeled STB (strobe), and the interface output handshake line is labeled IBF (input buffer full). A low-level signal on STB loads data from the I/O bus into the interface data register. A high-level signal on IBF indicates that the data item has been accepted by the interface. IBF goes low after an I/O read signal from the CPU when it reads the contents of the data register. a. Draw a block diagram showing the CPU, the interface, and the I/O device together with the pertinent interconnections among the three units. b. Draw a timing diagram for the handshaking transfer. c. Obtain a sequence-of-events flowchart for the transfer from the device to the interface and from the interface to the CPU. Question 2 How many characters per second can be transmitted over a 1200-baud line in each of the following modes? (Assume a character code of eight bits.) a. Synchronous serial transmission. b. Asynchronous serial transmission with two stop bits. c. Asynchronous serial transmission with one stop bit. Question 3 The bits in the control register of the FIFO shown in Fig. 11-9 (slide 14) are F1F2F3F4 = 0011. Give the sequence of internal operations when an item is deleted from the FIFO and then a new item is inserted. Question 4 Design a parallel priority-interrupt-hardware for a system with eight interrupt sources. Include the truth table of the encoder and the Boolean functions that implement them. Question 5 What programming steps are required to check when a source interrupts the computer while it is still being serviced by a previous interrupt request from the same source?
All questions are taken from Chapter 11 in M. Mano/Computer Design and Architecture 3 Ed.
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