Question:

a) Give the instruction cycle state diagram for a typical Von Neumann machine.

b) Give two diagrams to differentiate between a Memory and CPU connections.

c) Contrast the two different types of computer buses and mention one advantage and one disadvantage for each type.

d) Describe the four main data access methods and give one example of one entity which accesses data in each method.

e) Provide eight properties for each of static RAM (SRAM) and dynamic RAM (DRAM) and give the low-level structure of each type.