COEN 317: Microprocessor-based systems, Fall 2020

Assignment 1, Deadline: Sep 30th, 11:59 PM EDT

Please demonstrate your calculations for all questions.

1- Consider a microprocessor system where the processor has 16-bit

data bus and 20-bit address bus. What is the maximum size of the
byte addressable memory that can be connected with this processor?
(15 points)

2- In continuation to the previous exercise, now consider a bit

addressable memory with 32-bit bus. What is the maximum memory
size in (bytes) that can be accessed? (15 points)

3- A processor has been designed based on Harvard architecture. The

instruction size of this processor is fixed, and each one is 16 bits. On
the other hand, the register sizes are 8 bits. If you are to design the
memory and bus system for this processor what would be the size of
each cell of the data memory and instruction memory? (30 points)

- If the data memory is 1 Kbyte, what will be the size of the address-
bus to point at data-memory locations?

- If the instruction memory is 1 Mbyte, what will be the size of the

instruction address-bus?

4- A program runs in 10 milliseconds on computer A, and it needs 20*

10 ^ 6 clock cycles to complete the program. What would be the clock
rate of this processor? If the clock rate of computer B is 1.5 times of
computer A, and the program runs in 5 ms, what would be the
number of clock cycles in computer B? (30 points)

5- Assume that the instructions of a processor are 32 bits and the

instruction memory is byte addressable, which value must be added
to the program counter (PC) after each instruction fetch to point at the
next instruction? (10 points)