The processing speed of the original 8051 MCU was:

a. 2 FLOPS b. 1 CoreMark c. 1 MIPS d. 2 MIPS e. 0.5 MIPS

How many clock cycles are necessary to execute most instructions in 8-bit PIC MCUs?

a. 3 b. 2 c. 4 d. 1 e. 5

What are the differences between Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M3 core?

a. Jazelle instruction list b. Double precision floating point unit c. DSP instructions d. ARM instruction list e. Single precision floating point unit

Which features are strong in 8-bit MCUs?

a. High performance b. Low power performance c. Low price d. Easy development e. Autonomous & Intelligent peripherals

History of ARM core began in:

a. 1960's b. 1980's c. 1990's d. 2000's e. 1970's

What are main the advantages of the tail-chaining mechanism found in NVIC controller?

a. Avoiding unnecessary stack operations b. Reduction of interrupt latency of a single interrupt c. Making interrupt nesting possible d. Increase in overall CPU performance e. Reduction of time lost for interrupt switching

What is true for the TCM block inside Cortex-M cores

a. It is used to increase the MCU performance b. It is an instruction memory close to the core c. It works like a cache memory d. It is available in Cortex-M4 core e. It is a data memory close to the core

What are baud rate limitations in SPI?

a. 10 Mb/s b. It is not a problem of the SPI interface c. Depends on the electrical capabilities of the master and slave(s) d. Depends on the PCB design e. 20 Mbaud

The maximum value of input voltages of an MCU is usually:

a. VCC + 0.5 V b. VDD - 0.5 V c. VEE - 0.5 V d. VCC - 2V e. VSS - 0.5 V

Mark true statements for PC:

a. It isautomatically advanced to point to the next instruction b. It is a register c. It is a peripheral block d. It is pointing the next instruction to be executed e. It is has to be manually stacked during subrouting calls.