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Week 1 1) 1. The sphere of control of an embedded system will include 1 point

Lecture 1 : a) All sensors and actuators in the larger system in which an embedded system is
Introduction embedded
b) Some sensors and actuators in the larger system in which an embedded
Lecture 2 :
Processors system is embedded
c) No sensors and actuators in the larger system in which an embedded
Lecture 3:
General
system is embedded
Purpose and d) May be (b) or (c)
ASIPs
Processor 2) 2. An IoT system may 1 point

Lecture 4: a) consist of several embedded systems communicating among each other

Designing a b) consist of several embedded systems which are stand alone
Single
Purpose c) consist of a network of embedded and nonembedded systems
Processor d) All of the above

Quiz : Week 1 3) 3. Select the maximally correct statement /statements 1 point

Assignment
a) The input to an embedded system is through a sensor that senses digital data
Solution of
Week 1
Assignment b) The input to an embedded system is through a sensor that is always followed by an
analog
Week 2 to digital converter

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a) Real time, low power,

Powered by low cost, single application
Week 7
b) Sometimes real time, portable, low cost, low power, small area
Week 8 c) Often real time, often portable, low power, low cost, small area
d) Often real time, often portable, low power, low cost, small area, mostly single
Week 9 application

Week 10 5) 5. Let the latency of a system be L and the throughput be T. which of the following 1 point
statements are correct?

a) L = 1/ T
b) L < 1 /T
c) L > = 1/T
d) L < = 1/T

6) 6. Correctness of an embedded system design means: 1 point

a) Correctness of the software code

b) Correctness of the hardware design and the software code
c) Correctness of timing
d) Correct time to market
e) b and c
f) b, c and d

7) 7. Implementing a system by software alone will make the system necessarily 1 point

a) Slow
b) Flexible
c) Cheap
d) Power efficient

8) 8. Formal specifications are preferred to natural language specifications since 1 point

a) Natural language specifications are less understandable

b) Formal specifications are less ambiguous
c) Natural language specifications cannot be simulated/ executed
d) Both b and c

9) 9. The instruction set of a GPP is larger than the instruction set in an ASIP. Hence, 1 point

a) A GPP will consume more power

b) An ASIP will be able to implement less functionalities than a GPP
c) An ASIP will have less hardware complexity than a GPP
d) Both a and c
e) Both b and c
f) All of a, b and c

10)10. The Harvard Architecture has 1 point

a) Separate program and data memory

b) Unified data and program memory
c) More memory than vonNeumann Architecture
d) Less memory than vonNeumann Architecture

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11)11. Which of the following statements are correct: 1 point

A. The controller in an ASIP has less number of gates than the controller of a GPP

B. The datapath of a GPP is of same complexity as that of an ASIP

C. The power of a Processor is derived from its instruction set

D. Mutiplexers are not part of datapaths

a) A
b) A and B
c) A and C
d) A, B and D

12)12. In an ASIC , which of the following are correct 1 point

a) We do not need any control path as there is no program

b) We do not need any data path as there is no decision making
c) We need larger data memory than an ASIP
d) We do not need any program memory

13)13. Scratch Pad Registers 1 point

i) Are part of the microprocessor itself

ii) Are external to microprocessor

iii) Are faster than onchip cache memory

iv) Are limited in number (compared to main memory and cache locations)

The correct statement is

(a) (i) only

(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (i), (iii) and (iv)

14)14. Instructions fetched from the main memory goes to 1 point

(a) The Instruction register

(b) The Program counter
(c) One of the scratch pad registers
(d) None of the above

15)15. Which of the following are valid statements 1 point

(i) Data must come to the ALU inputs from the registers only

(ii) Data can be fed to the ALU inputs from the memory locations only

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(iii) Data can be fed to the ALU inputs either from the memory locations or from the registers

(iv) An ALU input can accept data from different sources through the use of multiplexers

(a) (i) only

(b) (ii) only
(c) (iii) only
(d) (iii) and (iv) both

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