Thursday, April 1, 2010

Microprocessor Quiz 2

Identification.

1. The designer of 555 timers.

2. Any device that stores the status of something at a given time and can operate on input to change the status and or cause an action or output to take place for any given change.

3. Used as simplest form of error-detecting device.

4. The binary medium of communication with a computer through a designed set of instructions specific to each computer.

5. A miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductordevices, as well as positive components) that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material.

6. The main reason for inventing the World's forst comuter, Colossus.

7. A Japanese company that owned the rights for the first microprocessor.

8. A device or program that translates encoded data into its original format (e.g., it decodes the data).

9. They produced the first stored program computer, the first floating point machine, the first transistor computer, and the first computer to use virtual memory.

10. The designer of Intel 4004.

11. The other term for microprocessors.

12. The processor that allowed computers to more easily incorporate "real-world" data such as speech, sound, handwriting, photographic images.

13. A measure of computer's speed.

14. Microprocessor designed for gaming.

15. Microprocessor designed for MID (mobile internet devices).

16. A special purpose register that can move the bits of the word it holds left or right.

17. A special purpose register that holds an m-bit word.

18. A notation used in digital system which is equivalent to 4-bits.

19. A notation used in digital system which is equivalent to 16-bits.

20. A character-encoding scheme that represents text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text.

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