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Are used in computer systems as places to store a wide variety of data, such
as addresses, program counters, or data necessary for program execution.
(ONE WORD)
⁃ reg
isters
CPU part which carries out logical and arithmetic operations as directed by
the control unit.
⁃ ari
thmetic logic unit
Direct addressing gives the address of the address of the data in the
instruction.
⁃ tru
e
CRCs are useful when you can ask for retransmission; Hamming codes are
good when retransmission is not possible, such as when data is stored on a
disk.
⁃ fal
se
Hamming codes, used for error detection and correction, are useful for burst
errors (where we could reasonably expect multiple adjacent bits to be
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incorrect); Reed-Soloman coding is more useful for random errors (where one
can reasonably expect errors to be rare events).
⁃ fal
se
A 16-bit register that holds the data after its retrieval from, or before its
placement in memory.
⁃ MB
R
A storage structure that stores information in such a way that the last item
stored is the first item retrieved.
⁃ sta
ck
The control unit uses a ____________________ to find the next instruction for
execution and a status register to keep track of overflows, carries, borrows,
and the like.
⁃ pr
ogram counter
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The brain of the computer system. It executes program instruction
⁃ mi
croprocessor
Locality type in cache memory which occurs when elements are accessed
frequently over a period of time; for example, within a loop. (ONE WORD)
⁃ te
mporal
The term endian refers to the byte ordering, or the way a computer stores
the bytesof a multiple-byte data element.
⁃ tru
e
Unicode is a 16-bit code, occupying twice the disk space for text as ASCII or
EBCDIC would require.
⁃ tru
e
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A Hertz is one million cycles per second.
⁃ fal
se
Indexed or based addressing techniques add the value in the index or base
registerto the operand to produce the effective address.
⁃ tru
e
Bit manipulation instructions are used for setting and resetting individual bits
(or sometimes groups of bits) within a given data word.
⁃ tru
e
BCD stands for Binary Coded Decimal and encodes each digit of a decimal
number to an 8-bit binary form.
⁃ tru
e
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Perform the following base conversions
58810 = _________ 3
⁃ 21
0210
The easiest way organize a cache memory employs direct mapping that
relies on a simple algorithm to map data block i from the main memory into
data block i in the cache.
⁃ tru
e
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