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1.3 What is the meaning of abbreviation EDA in this course?

a) Electronic Design Automation
b) Event Driven Architecture
c) Equipment Data Acquisition

2.3 Which step in EDA Flow is used to determine the locations of the design
logic blocks and connecting wires on the phisycal chip

a) Simulation
b) Synthesis
c) Place and Route

3.3 What is the generic term used to describe an integrated circuit designed to
be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing?

a) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - ASIC
b) Field-Programmable Gate Array - FPGA
c) Hardware Description Language - HDL
d) Register Transfer Level - RTL
e) System-on-Chip - SoC

4.3 Encode MIPS instruction

sra $8, $9, 4

a) 00084902 
b) 00084903 
c) 00094100 
d) 00094102 
e) 00094103 

5.3 Disassemble MIPS instruction

01484807 		

a) sltu $10, $9, $8 
b) bltz $8, 1f      
c) lb $8, ($8)    
d) srav $9, $8, $10 
e) or $8, $8, $8  

6.3 What is the result of the following MIPS program execution?

	li	$8, 12
	li	$9, 13
	li	$10, 14
	addu	$10, $8, $9

a) $8=0x0000000c, $9=0x0000000d, $10=00000019
b) $8=0x0000000c, $9=0x0000001a, $10=0000000e
c) $8=0x00000014, $9=0x00000012, $10=00000019
d) $8=0x0000001b, $9=0x0000000d, $10=0000000e
e) $8=0x0000000c, $9=0x0000001a, $10=0000000e

7.3 What is the result of the following MIPS program execution?

	.data
a3:	.word	0x12345678
	.word	0x9abcdef0
	.word	0x11111111
	.word	0x22222222
	.word	0x33333333
	.text
ld3:	la	$8, a3
	or	$9, $8, $8
	lw	$8, 4 ($8)
	sb	$8, ($9)

a) $8=0x00000056
b) $8=0x12345678
c) $8=0x00000012
d) $8=0xffffff9a
e) $8=0x9abcdef0

8.3 What is the result of the following MIPS program execution?

bltz1:	li	$8, 12
	bltz	$8, 1f
	li	$10, 14
	li	$10, 15
1:

a) $10 = 12
b) $10 = 13
c) $10 = 14
d) $10 = 15
e) $10 = 0x1f

9. What is the purpose of using program stack in assembly (and any other) programming?

a) Stack is needed to store return addresses for the nested function calls
b) Stack is used to pass function parameters when there is no place on registers
c) Stack is used to allocate space for temporary variables when there is no place on registers
d) Stack is used to save some temporary registers when calling a function
e) All the above

10.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic signed [15:0] a, b, c;
    a = 16'hFFFF;
    b = 1;
    c = a << b;
    $display ("signed %b << %b = %b", a, b, c);
end

a) 0000000000000000
b) 0000000000000001
c) 0000001000000100
d) 0111111111111111
e) 1111111111111101
f) 1111111111111110
g) 1111111111111111

11.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic signed [15:0] a, b, c;
    a = 16'hFFFF;
    b = 1;
    c = a >> b;
    $display ("signed %b >> %b = %b", a, b, c);
end

a) 0000000000000000
b) 0000000000000001
c) 0000001000000100
d) 0111111111111111
e) 1111111111111101
f) 1111111111111110
g) 1111111111111111

12.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic signed [15:0] a, b, c;
    a = 16'hFFFF;
    b = 1;
    c = a >>> b;
    $display ("signed %b >>> %b = %b", a, b, c);
end

a) 0000000000000000
b) 0000000000000001
c) 0000001000000100
d) 0111111111111111
e) 1111111111111101
f) 1111111111111110
g) 1111111111111111

13.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic [15:0] a, b, c;
    a = 16'hFFFF;
    b = 1;
    c = a - b;
    $display ("%b - %b = %b", a, b, c);
end

a) 0000000000000000
b) 0000000000000001
c) 0000001000000100
d) 0111111111111111
e) 1111111111111101
f) 1111111111111110
g) 1111111111111111

14.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic [15:0] a, b, c;
    a = 16'h1234;
    b = 16'habcd;
    c = a | b;
    $display ("%b | %b = %b", a, b, c);
end

a) 0000001000000100
b) 1011100111111001
c) 1011101111111101
d) 1110110111001011
e) 1110110111001100

15.3 What is the result of SystemVerilog simulation of the code below (value after "=")?

module test;
initial
begin
    logic [15:0] a, b;
    a = 16'h1234;
    b = - a;
    $display ("- %b = %b", a, b);
end

a) 0000001000000100
b) 1011100111111001
c) 1011101111111101
d) 1110110111001011
e) 1110110111001100

16.3 Which waveform is the result of the simulation below?

module design (input a, input b, output o);

    assign o = a & b;

endmodule

module tb;

    logic a, b, o;

    design design_inst (a, b, o);

    initial
    begin
        $dumpvars;
        $monitor ("%t a %b b %b o %b", $time, a, b, o);

        #10;
        a = 0; b = 0; #10;
        a = 1; b = 0; #10;
        a = 0; b = 1; #10;
        a = 1; b = 1; #10;
    end

endmodule

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17.3 What is the result of synthesis of this module?

module design
(
    input  a,
    input  b,
    input  carry_in,
    output sum,
    output carry_out
);

    wire p = a ^ b;
    wire q = a & b;

    assign sum       = p ^ carry_in;
    assign carry_out = q | (p & carry_in);

endmodule



18.3 Which design below corresponds to the schematics on the picture?



a)

module design
(
    input        [7:0] a,
    input        [7:0] b,
    output logic [7:0] o
);

    always @*
    begin
        o = a; 

        if (b < 5)
            o = a * a;
    end

endmodule

b)

module design
(
    input        [7:0] a,
    input        [7:0] b,
    input        [7:0] c,
    output logic [7:0] o
);

    always @*
    begin
        o = a; 

        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            o *= a;
    end

endmodule

c)

module design
(
    input        [7:0] a,
    input        [7:0] b,
    input        [7:0] c,
    output logic [7:0] o
);

    always @*
    begin
        int i;

        o = a; 

        for (i = 0; i < 5; i = i + 1)
            o = o * a;
    end

endmodule

d) both a and b
e) both b and c

19 A designer run FPGA synthesis for the following
4 designs and get the number of logic elements.
However you don't know whether he did it in correct way.
Which set of numbers is more believable for you?

a) 1:16, 2:16, 3:16, 4:16
b) 1:16, 2:16, 3:46, 4:46
c) 1:16, 2:8,  3:46, 4:54
d) 1:46, 2:16, 3:16, 4:46
e) 1:54, 2:45, 3:8,  4:16

module design1 (input [7:0] a, input [7:0] b, input [7:0] c, output logic [7:0] o);
    assign o = a + b + c;
endmodule

module design2 (input [7:0] a, input [7:0] b, output logic [7:0] o);
    assign o = a + b;
endmodule

module design3 (input [7:0] a, input [7:0] b, output logic [7:0] o);
    assign o = a * b;
endmodule

module design4 (input [7:0] a, input [7:0] b, input [7:0] c, output logic [7:0] o);
    assign o = a * b + c;
endmodule

20.3 Are there any problems with the following SystemVerilog code?

a) This code is OK

b) Warning: incomplete case statement has no default case item

c) Warning: inferring latch(es) for variable, which holds its previous value in one or more paths through the always construct

d) Warning: variable is read inside the Always Construct but isn't in the Always Construct's Event Control

e) Both (b) and (c)

module design (input [3:0] a, input [3:0] b, input [3:0] c, output logic [3:0] o);
    always @*
    begin
        if (a < b)
            o = c;
    end
endmodule

21.3 Are there any problems with the following SystemVerilog code?

a) This code is OK

b) Warning: incomplete case statement has no default case item

c) Warning: inferring latch(es) for variable, which holds its previous value in one or more paths through the always construct

d) Warning: variable is read inside the Always Construct but isn't in the Always Construct's Event Control

e) Both (b) and (c)

module design (input [1:0] a, input [1:0] b, input [1:0] c, output logic [1:0] o);
    always @*
    begin
        case (a)
        1: o = a + b;
        2: o = a * b;
        3: o = c;
        endcase
    end
endmodule