UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA /

ZAMBIA ICT COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ACADEMICS
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - EEE/ETE

EEE 3041 : Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and Embedded

Systems
Task : Test 2/Redemption Test
Due : 16th October, 2022
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INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL Questions. Each Question carries 20 %.

QUESTION ONE

(a) The 8086 microprocessor has several Address lines and of Data bus lines.
i. State the number of Address lines and Data bus available in the microprocessor [2]
ii. The segment address is 5000H and the Offset is 1678H.Calculate the physical
Address to be accessed in the microprocessor [4]
iii. With the aid of a diagram explain the operation of the Program counter [8]
iv. Define the stack pointer [3]
v. Name the register used in conjunction with the Stack pointer [1]
vi. Name and State the memory size of each Memory segment in the 8086
microprocessor [2]

QUESTION TWO

(a) With relevant examples explain the following addressing modes

i. Based indexed with displacement Addressing Mode [4]

ii. Based Addressing Mode [4]
iii. Direct Addressing mode [4]
iv. Register Addressing Mode [4]
v. Immediate Addressing [4]

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QUESTION THREE

(a) ZESCO Lusaka uses SCADA logic in conjunction with the OPGW fiber network
to monitor the Grid.In order to achieve this, they have connected provincial centers
In Ndola an IC4 has been installed and this chip directly monitors different equipment
through the use of buses connected to different distribution outputs.
grid in Ndola. In Kitwe IC2 is installed. This particular IC has input, Output and
memory and controls all other ICs in the surrounding
towns. In Lusaka IC1 is installed which controls all the provincial ICs including the
IC3 in Chipata as a provincial center. This particular IC has a control which also
Control the turbines in Kafue through the network.
i. Name the types of integrated circuits IC1,IC2,IC3 and IC4 [4]

ii. With the aid of a well labelled diagram explain the term Microprocessor [8]
iii. State the types of ICs represented by A,B,C,D [8]
Type of IC Application
A Arduino rev 3
B Household washing machine
C Defense light combat aircraft
D A programmable device to detect water levels at Kafue
gorge for controlling the Turbines

QUESTION FOUR

(a) Describe the function of Flags. [4]

(b) With relevant examples explain the following terminologies
i. PUSH [4]
ii. POP [4]
iii. Increment [3]
iv. Decrement [3]
(c) What is the function of the instruction decoder [2]

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