Hardware Questions

Level 1 cache is internal to the chip, Level 2 is external.

IEEE 1394 (Firewire) supports the maximum of 63 connected devices with speeds up to 400 Mbps.

Flag is a flip-flop used to store the information about the status of a processor and the status of the insturction executed most recently.

A software or hardware mark that signals a particular condition or status. A flag is like a switch that can be either on or off. The flag said to be set when it is turned on.

compiler is used to translate the high-level language program into machine code at a time. It doesn't require special instruction to store in a memory, it stores automatically. the execution time is less compared interpreter.

A compiler is a program that translates a source program written in some high-level programming langualge (such as Java) into machine code for some computer architecture (such as the Inter Pentium archiecture).

You can divide the frequency of a clock by just implementing T Flip flop.

Give clock as clock input and tie the T input to logic 1.

Stack pointer is a special purpose 16-bit register in the Microprocessor, which holds the address od the top of the stack.

Static RAM: no refreshing, 6 to 8 MOS transistors are required to form one memory cell, information stored as voltage level in flip flop. 

Dynamic RAM: refreshed periodically, 3 to 4 transistors are required to form one memory cell, information is  stored as a charge in the gate to substrate capacitance.

A blocking assignment is one in which the statements are executed sequentially, i.e., first statement is executed and variable is assigned  a value then second is executed and so on. A non blocking assignment is  one in which statements occurs conturrently, only non blocking assignments should be used in sequential circuit.

e.g.

initial

begin

a=b; //blocking

c<=a; //nonblocking

d=c; // blocking

end

In this example firstly the value of b is assigned to a and this value is assigned to c only after execution of first statement. the second and the third statements are executed simultaneously, i.e. value a ais assigned to c and previous value if c is assigned to d.