CSC 105 – ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION

Remedial Midterm Exam

Test Questionnaire – Answer Key
2nd Semester, 2020-2021

Name: CHRISTINE L. BACLAY

A. Floating-Point Operation (Guard, Round, Sticky). Show your Solution.

1. Perform the computation 11.101010111 2 x27 + 1.0010110012 x25 to seven (7) mantissa bits (use round
to nearest, ties to even if needed). (Max score = 9 pts.)

G R S BaseExp
Operand 1 1.110101 1 1 1 X28
Operand 2 0.001001 1 1 1 X28
Sum 1.111111 1 1 0 X28
Sum(normalize 1.111111 X28
)

2. Perform the computation 1.01111100102 x25 + 1.00111111102 x23 to seven (7) mantissa bits (use
round to nearest, ties to even if needed). (Max score = 9 pts.)

G R S BaseExp
Operand 1 1.011111 0 1 1 X25
Operand 2 0.010011 1 1 1 X25
Sum 1.110011 0 1 0 X25
Sum(normalize 1.110011 X25
)

3. Perform the computation 4.216437 x103 x 5.242714 x105 to seven (7) mantissa bits (use round to
nearest, ties to even if needed). (Max score = 9 pts.)

G R S BaseExp
Operand 1 5.242714 0 0 0 X105
Operand 2 0.042164 3 7 0 X105
Product 0.221055 7 3 2 X1010
Product(normalize) 0.221056 X1010

4. Perform the computation 754321.7641 - 654321.956 to seven (7) mantissa bits (use round to nearest,
ties to even if needed). (Max score = 7 pts.)

G R S BaseExp
5
Operand 1 7.543217 6 4 1 X10
Operand 2 6.543219 5 6 0 X105
Sum 0.999998 0 8 1 X105
Sum(normalize 0.999998 X105
)
B. Understanding memory representation: If the number cannot be represented, write “N/A”.
(1 pt. each) Show your Solution

Memory Decimal
representation Viewed as Binary Equivalent Equivalent
(in hex)
FFFFFFF08 Signed integer 11111000 -8
FFFFFFF08 Unsigned integer 1111 1111 1111 6,871,947,426
1111 1111 1111
1111 0000 1000
FE Signed integer 0010 -2
FE Unsigned integer 1111 1110 254
7FB00000 Single Float 0111 1111 1011 2,142,240,768
0000 0000 0000
0000 0000

C. Floating Point Representation. Show your Solution.

1. Express -1.510 using IEEE Single Precision Format. (Max score = 8 pts.)

Sign Bit Exponent Mantissa Representation Hex Value

Representation
1 01111111 10000000000000000000000 BFC00000h

2. Express -42.510 using IEEE Single Precision Format. (Max score = 8 pts.)

Sign Bit Exponent Mantissa Representation Hex Value

Representation
1 10000100 01010100000000000000000 C22A0000h