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  1. A device with data transfer rate 10 kbyte/s is connected to a CPU. Data is transferred byte wise. Let the interrupt overhead be 4 μs. The byte transfer time between the device interfaces register and CPU or memory is negligible. What is the minimum performance gain of operating the device under interrupt mode over operating it under program controlled mode?
    1. 15
    2. 25
    3. 35
    4. 45
Correct Option: B

Data transfer rate = 10000 B/sec
Total data = 25 × 103
Rate = 104
Performance gain=(25/ 104) × 100 = 25%



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