{"id":113052,"date":"2023-01-18T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/computer-architecture-embedded-systems-computer-science-homework-help\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:54:32","slug":"computer-architecture-embedded-systems-computer-science-homework-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/computer-architecture-embedded-systems-computer-science-homework-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer architecture embedded systems | Computer Science homework help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>For each of the following examples, determine whether this is an embedded system, explaining why or why not.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 1\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are programs that understand physics and\/or hardware embedded? For example, one that uses finite-element methods to predict fluid flow over airplane wings?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the internal microprocessor controlling a disk drive an example of an embedded system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Question 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is an I\/O drivers control hardware, so does the presence of an I\/O driver imply that the computer executing the driver is embedded?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) an embedded system?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the microprocessor controlling a cell phone an embedded system?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the computer controlling a pacemaker in a person\u2019s chest an embedded computer?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>List and briefly define the possible states that define an instruction execution.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>List and briefly define two approaches to dealing with multiple interrupts.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider two microprocessors having 8- and 16-bit-wide external data buses, respectively. The two processors are identical otherwise and their bus cycles take just as long.\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>(a) Suppose all instructions and operands are two bytes long. By what factor do the maximum data transfer rates differ?\u00a0<\/strong> <strong>(b) Repeat assuming that half of the operands and instructions are one byte long.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For each of the following examples, determine whether this is an embedded system, explaining why or why not.\u00a0 Question 1\u00a0 Are programs that understand physics and\/or hardware embedded? For example, one that uses finite-element methods to predict fluid flow over airplane wings?\u00a0 Question 2 Is the internal microprocessor controlling a disk drive an example of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}