EE380 Assignment 0

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1. 100% Which one of the following four statements is false?
   A core is one of the PEs on a processor chip
   Magnetic media often are used for non-volatile storage
   Most of the world's processors are in PCs running Microsoft Windows
   An optical mouse incorporates a simplified high-speed digital camera
   None of the above statements is false
2. 100% Here's one to look up in the history reference materials.... Floating point arithmetic is generally agreed to first have been implemented by Konrad Zuse's Z3 computer in what year?
   2001
   1981
   1961
   1941
   1891
3. 100%
   Here's another one to look-up in the reference materials. GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are pretty impressive devices with around 3,000,000,000 transistors on one chip. About how many of the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (from 1971), would that many transistors build?
   10
   100
   1,000
   10,000
   1,000,000
4. 100% Which of the following five terms refers to computer hardware at the highest abstraction level?
   Die
   Gate
   Transistor
   Silicon Ingot
   Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
5. 100% Which one of the following four statements about how computer technology has been changing over the last few decades is false?
   Processors have been getting faster.
   Main memory has been getting faster.
   Power consumption per transistor has been decreasing.
   The complexity of circuitry that fits on a single chip has been increasing.
   All of the above statements are true.
6. 100% Which one of the following four choices is specified as part of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?
   The machine code bit patterns
   The types of gates used to construct the processor
   The number of clock cycles taken to execute each instruction
   The maximum power that can be consumed by the processor
   None of the above are part of the ISA
7. 100% In a modern computer, a bus is used to connect three different subsystems, A, B, and C. In an older system, point-to-point connections probably would have been used. Briefly describe one disadvantage that the bus connection scheme has in comparison to point-to-point wiring.
   

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