TRICHY ANNA UNIVERSITY THEORY EXAMINATIONS APRIL/MAY 2011 B.E/B.

TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION , APRIL /MAY 2011

SEM : VIth- SEMESTER DEPT : ELECTRONICS COMMUNCATION ENGINEERING SUB : CS1358-COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE TOTAL MARKS : 100

PART-A
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

10 X 2= 20

What is an I/O interrupt? Define: pipelining. What is n-bit ripple carry adder? Give the format of the single precision floating point number? Draw the block diagram of connection and control signals for register MDR Define microinstructions and micro routine. What is locality of reference Define. Exception What is plug and play technology DMA transfer techniques and their uses PART-B 5 X 16 = 80

11. a) Functional Units of Computer.(12m) b) Role of instruction register and program Counter(4m) OR 12. Describe the basic Input/output operations with neat diagram. 13 a. Explain the full adder with a neat diagram(4m) b. Explain the carry look ahead adder with a neat diagram(12m) OR 14. Explain the Booth algorithm for signed multiplication with a suitable example (16m) 15 a) Draw the block diagram of three bus organization of the data path and briefly explain(8) b) Describe the organization of a micro programmed control unit with a block diagram(4M) c)How can the micro programmed control unit be modified to support branching?(4m) OR 16.Write detailed notes on Instruction hazards caused by conditional branches (16m) 17. a) Briefly describe the operation of a single transistor dynamic memory cell(4m) b)Explain the organization of a 2M x 8(16megabit)dynamic memory chip with a neat diagram(8) C)Write short notes on flash memory(4m) OR 18. a. Explain the mapping functions of Cache memory (8m) b.Describe the CD Technology with necessary diagrams.(8m) 19. Explain the direct memory access in detail OR? 20. Explain the PCI interface in detail

B.E/B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION , NOV /DECEMBER

SEM : VIth- SEMESTER DEPT : ELECTRONICS COMMUNCATION ENGINEERING SUB : CS1358-COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
PART-A 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 10 X 2= 20 1.What is bus.what are the different buses in CPU? Why is the data s in most microprocessors bidirectional while the address bus is unidirectional Perform 1010001 1000101 using the 1s and 2s compliment arithmetic. Define underflow and overflow. What is the difference hardwired control and micro programmed control? How does pipelining enhance the speed of operation? Compare Static RAM and Dynamic RAM What is meant by Hit Ratio? What is priority Interrupt? How does Direct Memory Access compare with interrupts, in terms of priority. PART-B 5 X 16 =80

11.a. With neat diagram, explain von-Neumann computer architecture.(12m) b. what are addressing modes? Mention any two addressing modes and explain(4m) OR 12.A)Explain various instruction formats in detail(10m) B) What is queue? What are the basic operations on Queue?Give any 2 of its application(4M) 13. a. Design 4-bit binary adder and explain its functions?(8m) b. Write algoritm for division of floating point numbers and illustrate with an example?(8m) OR 14.A)Draw the diagrams of a carry look ahead adder and explain the carry look ahead principle(12M) B) What is the disadvantage in using a ripple carry adder?(4m) 15. What is data hazard? Explain the methods for dealing with the data hazards.(16M) OR 16. With neat diagram ,explain the basic organization of a micro programmed control unit.also explain its operation with a typical set of micro instructions(16M) 17.A. Explain how the virtual address is converted into real address in paged virtual memory system.(10m) B)Describe the working principle of a typical magnetic disk(6m) OR 18. a. Explain the various mapping functions used for mapping main memory blocks into cache memory(8m) b. construct 2KB memory RAM using appropriate number of 1KB RAM chips and interface with a typical CPU.Draw the interface diagram(8M)

19. Draw the typical block diagram of a DMA controller and explain how it is used for direct data transfer between memory and peripherals (16m) OR 20. a. Describe the working principles of USB(8M) b. Briefly compare the characteristics of SCSI with PCI(8M)

Extra Possible questions(The following questions are already asked in university examination under Chennai Anna university syllabus) 16mark Unit -1
1. 2. 3. 4. Basic operational concepts of a computer(8m) Difference between RISC and CISC architecture.(8m) Basic input output operations. Exlaplain about instruction sequencing.

Unit - 2 1.Discuss the arithmetic operations on floating point numbers. 2. Draw and explain 4 bit carry look ahead adder.

Unit - 3
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Hardwired control unit and functions performed by the various blocks.(16) Detail about instruction execution characteristics with sketches(16m) Execution of a complete instruction with diagram(16m) Explain about Exception Handling(8m) Discuss the various hazards arise in pipeline. What are the remedies commonly adopted to overcome /minimize these hazards.(16m)

Unit - 4
1. Explain Secondary Storage(8m) 2. Detail about concept of memory hierarchy with block diagram(16m)

2marks UNIT-1
1. RISC vs. CICS 2. Give an example of zero,one,two address instructions. 3. Calculate the effective address for the following instructions. Intial value R1 =1200,R2 =2400 a.Load 20(R1),R5 b. Move #300,R5 c. Sub (R1)+,r5 4. List the general registers available in a processor 5. What are assembler directives. 6. What are the steps carried out during a program execution 7. Name the methods used for generating the control signals. 8. What is monadic and dyadic instructions. 9. Define big-endian and little endian assignments. 10. Difference between auto increment and auto decrement addressing mode.

UNIT -2
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. What are the techniques used for high speed multiplication. Dicuss the principle behind the booth algorithm. What is ripple carry adder. Define overflow rule in addition and subtraction. Recode the multiplier 101100 for booths multiplication and bit pair recoding scheme. What is meant by exception handling? What is von Neumann rounding. Give the IEEE standard floating point formats. UNIT- 3 Difference between horizontal and vertical microinstruction format? Difference between hardwired control unit vs micro programmed control unit. What is pipelining ? what are the advantages of pipelining. Define Control store. D Define data hazard. Explain about MFC signal. How to transfer the contents of register R1 to R4. Difference between mircro routine and micro instructions. Write the features of multiple bus organization. Define datapath. How to improve the pipeline speed.

UNIT -4
30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. List out the methods used to improve system performance? What is meant by associative mapping technique? Define: Data Stripping. Mention the applications of interrupts. Why program controlled I/O is unsuitable for high speed data transfer. What is mean by MAR and MDR.

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List the types of memories available in processor. What do you mean by Interleaved memory. How many 128 X 8 RAM chips are needed to access 2048 bytes of memory. What is TLB? Define the principle of locality of reference What is the use of EEPROM?

UNIT -5
42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. What are interrupts? What is the limitation of pipelining techniques? What is meant by memory interleaving? What is bus arbitration. How interrupt request from multiple devices can be handled? List the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous buses. What are optical disk.