Dan is a small business owner who depends on his computer to keep track of customer and sales data. He is investigating storage options because it is critical for him to ensure that his data is safe in the event of a computer failure. As Dan is very concerned about maintaining the security of his business data, he should look for an external hard drive that comes with built-in .

Problems: 1. using textbooks, reference books, and internet as your source of research, draw the following microprocessor microarchitectures i. intel 8086 ii. motorola 68000 i atmel atmega32 iv. mips single cycle v. arm cortex-m3 write an hdl module for a hexadecimal seven-segment display decoder. the input is 4-bit binary representing a hex number (0-f), and the output is 8-bit seven segment display bits (a-h). thus, the decoder must handle the digits 10 - 15 to display a-f respectively, in addition to 0-9 numbers. 2. design a 4-bit left and right rotator (both outputs). first sketch schematic diagrams of your design. then implement your design using hdl coding. 3. 4. design a modified priority encoder that receives an 8-bit input, a7: 0 and produces a 3-bit output, y2o. y indicates the most significant bit of the input that is true. y should be 0 if none of the inputs are true. give a simplified boolean equation, sketch a schematic, and write an hdl code. 5.write an 8: 1 multiplexer module called mux8 with selection inputs s, data input d, and data output y. data input (d) and data output (v) are 32-bit wide

Consider a slotted aloha system, where the time slot equals the fixed duration of each packet. assume that there are 4 stations a, b,c, d sharing the medium. (a) stations a, b,c, d receive one packet each from higher layers at times 1.3, 1.5, 2.6,5.7 respectively. show which transmissions take place when, according to the slottedaloha protocol; describe all transmissions until all four packets have been successful. when needed, each station has access to the following sequence of random number, provided by a random number generator and drawn uniformly between 0 and 1: (1) station a draws numbers: 0.31, 0.27, 0.78, 0.9, 0.9, 0.11, 0. (2) station b draws numbers: 0.45, 0.28, 0.11, 0.83, 0.37, 0.22, 0. (3)station c draws numbers: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0. (4) station d draws numbers: 0.36, 0.77, 0.9, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0. (b) in slotted aloha, a station transmits in each time slot with a given probability. what probabilities would you assign to each of the four stations so as to: (i) maximize the efficiency of the protocol? (ii) maximize fairness among the four stations? (c) will the efficiency increase or decrease if we modify slotted aloha as follows: (i) get rid of slots and allow stations to transmit immediately? (ii) implement carrier sensing? (iii) implement collision detection? (iv) implement collision avoidance?

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