1. On which model is based the basic architecture of a digital computer? 2. What is meant by distributed processing? 3. What is a microprocessor? 4.

What is the technology used in microprocessor? 5. What are the 3 main units of a digital computer? 6. How microprocessor does communicate with the memory and I/O devices? 7. What is mnemonics? 8. What is machine language programming? 9. What is meant by assembly language programming? 10. What are meant by low level and high level language? 11. What is meant by word length of computer? 12. What is meant by instructions? 13. How many different instructions 8085 have? 14. What is an instruction set? 15. What an instruction consists of? 16. Give one example each of different types of instructions? 17. What language a microprocessor understands? 18. How an assembler translates programs written in mnemonics to binary? 19. What are the types of mnemonics possible? 20. What are source codes and object codes? 21. How are high level languages converted into binary? 22. Difference between a compiler and an interpreter? 23. What is a statement? 24. What are the names given to instructions written in high and low levellanguages?

25. What is the another name of a microprocessor? 26. What is a microcomputer? 27. What is a bus? 28. What are the different buses and what jobs they do in a microprocessor? 29. Why are the different buses buffered? 30. In how many ways computers are divided? 31. In how many ways computer soft wares are categorized? 32. Explain the two types of software? 33. What is an editor?3 4. What is an OS and what are its functions? 35. What are the different types of assemblers used? 36. What is a linker? 37. What is a locator? 38. What is coprocessor? 39. What is a coprocessor trap? 40. What is a debugger? 41. In how many groups can the signals of 8085 be classified? 42. What is meant by the statement that 8085 is a 8 bit microprocessor? 43. What is the operating frequency of 8085? 44. What is the purpose of CLK signals of 8085? 45. What are the widths of data bus (DB) and address bus (AB) of 8085? 46. What is the distinguishing feature of DB and AB? 47. The address capability of 8085 is 64 KB.Explain? 48. Does 8085 have serial I/O control? 49. Mention the addressing modes of 8085?

Ques 3. What is Asynchronous SRAM?

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Static random-access memory (SRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory that uses bistable latching circuitry to store each bit. The term static differentiates it from dynamic RAM (DRAM) which must be periodically refreshed. SRAM exhibits data remanence,[1] but is still volatile in the conventional sense that data is eventually lost when the memory is not powered. Asynchronous SRAM are available from 4 Kb to 64 Mb. The fast access time of SRAM makes asynchronous SRAM appropriate as main memory for small cache-less embedded processors used in everything from industrial electronics and measurement systems to hard disks and networking equipment, among many other applications. They are used in various applications like switches and routers, IP-Phones, IC-Testers, DSLAM Cards, to Automotive Electronics.

Ques 4. What is BIOS (Basic Input and Output Software)?

Ans. BIOS stands for Basic Input and Output Software. The BIOS is software that controls the most fundamental operations of a computer and a BIOS is necessary in order to start a computer. Without a BIOS, a computer would not know how to communicate with its hard disk and other devices. The BIOS is stored on a ROM (Read-Only Memory) computer chip inside the computer. Many computers in the past few years use "Flash EPROM" chips, which means the BIOS chip can be reprogrammed with an updated BIOS. A BIOS may need to be updated to fix bugs, such as the year 2000 bug, or an update may be necessary in order to support new hardware protocols.

Ques 5. What is Bit?

Ans. A bit (short for binary digit) is the smallest unit of data in a computer. A bit has a single binary value, either 0 or 1. Although computers usually provide instructions that can test and manipulate bits, they generally are designed to store data and execute instructions in bit multiples called bytes. In most computer systems, there are eight bits in a byte. The value of a bit is usually stored as either above or below a designated level of electrical charge in a single capacitor within a memory device. Half a byte (four bits) is called a nibble. In some systems, the term octet is used for an eight-bit unit instead of byte. In many systems, four eight-bit bytes or octets form a 32-bit word. In such systems, instruction lengths are sometimes expressed as full-word (32 bits in length) or halfword (16 bits in length).