TMA 5
Q1.
Draw
the internal components of a CPU.
Q2.
Briefly
describe the roles of:
a)
the data bus.
b)
the address bus
c)
the control bus
within the CPU.
Q3
a)
state one benefit of
increasing the width of the data bus
b)
state one
benefit of increasing the width of the address bus.
Q4
A
16-bit address bus can address 65,536 memory locations.
How
many locations of memory can be addressed by a 24-bit address bus?
Q5
Describe
the function of the clock?
Q6.
State
the purpose of an interrupt signal in a microprocessor.
Q7.
State
the purpose of registers in a microprocessor.
Extension Question.
A
processor can be considered to be made up of three components: the arithmetic
and Logic unit (ALU), the Control Unit and registers.
Describe
the purpose of each of these components.