Basic Peripherals and their Interfacing with 8086/88

This set of MCQs helps students to learn about Basic Peripherals and their Interfacing which means various components or devices those are connected to CPU. Actually these are input output devices. Thus, it sometimes calls as I/O devices and an interface which is a concept that refers to a point of interaction between objects or components and is applicable at the level of both hardware and software.

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If at a time Ao and BHE(active low) both are zero then, the chip(s) selected will be

RAM ROM RAM and ROM ONLY RAM

The input and output operations are respectively similar to the operations,

read, read write, write read, write write, read

The operation, IOWR (active low) performs

write operation on input data write operation on output data read operation on input data read operation on output data

The latch or IC 74LS373 acts as

good input port bad input port good output port bad output port

The semiconductor memories are organised as __________ dimension(s) of array of memory locations.

One dimensional

Two dimensional

Three dimensional

None

If a location is selected, then all the bits in it are accessible using a group of conductors called,

Control bus

Address bus

Data bus

Either address bus or data bus

To address a memory location out of N memory locations, the number of address lines required is,

log N (to the base 2)

log N (to the base 10)

log N (to the base e)

log (2N) (to the base e)

If the microprocessor has 10 address lines, then the number of memory locations it is able to address is,

512

1024

2048

none

In static memory, the upper 8-bit bank of an available 16-bit memory chip is called,

Upper address memory bank

Even address memory bank

Static upper memory

Odd address memory bank

In static memory, the lower 8-bit bank of an available 16-bit memory chip is called

Lower address memory bank

Even address memory bank

Static lower memory bank

Odd address memory bank

In most of the cases, the method used for decoding that may be used to minimise the required hardware is,

Absolute decoding

Non-linear decoding

linear decoding

None

To obtain 16-bit data bus width, the two 4K*8 chips of RAM and ROM are arranged in,

Parallel

Serial

Both serial and parallel

Neither serial nor parallel

If (address line) Ao=0 then, the status of address and memory are,

Address is even and memory is in ROM

Address is odd and memory is in ROM

Address is even and memory is in RAM

Address is odd and memory is in RAM

The device that enables the microprocessor to read data from the external devices is,

Printer

Joystick

Display

Reader

The example of output device is,

CRT display

7-segment display

Printer

All of the mentioned

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Basic Peripherals and their Interfacing with 8086/88
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Steve