Exam Details
| Subject | Computer Architecture | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | BTCVI / BTECVI / BTELVI | |
| Department | School of Engineering & Technology (SOET) | |
| Organization | indira gandhi national open university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | June, 2015 | |
| City, State | new delhi, |
Question Paper
List the various register level components. Draw the generic block representation of register level components.
Draw and explain in brief the internal structure of a CPU.
Discuss the different types of instructions in an instruction set of a computer.
What are the major attributes of RISC computers? State its applications.
What is instruction code Discuss the different fields of instruction format.
Obtain the appropriate decimal value that confirms IEEE 754 floating point format for the following two numbers:
A 10010111110000
B 01000111000001
Give an adder expansion design for a 16-bit adder which is composed of 4-bit adder and linked by ripple carry propagation.
Give the flow chart for Booth's algorithm suitable for signed number multiplication.
What is the need of multilevel memory system? Briefly explain with some suitable examples.
Discuss the Set Associative Mapping used in cache memory.
6. What do you mean by pipelining Explain the instruction pipelining with the help of an example.
For two level memory hierarchy (Ml explain the following:
Cost and Performance
Hit-ratio and Miss-ratio
Average time of Access
Access-efficiency
Space-utilization
Describe the general structure of Content Addressable Memory (CAM). Why is it so expensive
Define interrupt. Explain the different types of interrupts.
Differentiate between isolated mapped I/O and memory mapped I/O.
What is meant by program parallelism Explain with a suitable example.
Give the block diagram of DMA controller and explain its working briefly.
10. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Hardwired Control
Virtual Memory
Superscalar Processor
Draw and explain in brief the internal structure of a CPU.
Discuss the different types of instructions in an instruction set of a computer.
What are the major attributes of RISC computers? State its applications.
What is instruction code Discuss the different fields of instruction format.
Obtain the appropriate decimal value that confirms IEEE 754 floating point format for the following two numbers:
A 10010111110000
B 01000111000001
Give an adder expansion design for a 16-bit adder which is composed of 4-bit adder and linked by ripple carry propagation.
Give the flow chart for Booth's algorithm suitable for signed number multiplication.
What is the need of multilevel memory system? Briefly explain with some suitable examples.
Discuss the Set Associative Mapping used in cache memory.
6. What do you mean by pipelining Explain the instruction pipelining with the help of an example.
For two level memory hierarchy (Ml explain the following:
Cost and Performance
Hit-ratio and Miss-ratio
Average time of Access
Access-efficiency
Space-utilization
Describe the general structure of Content Addressable Memory (CAM). Why is it so expensive
Define interrupt. Explain the different types of interrupts.
Differentiate between isolated mapped I/O and memory mapped I/O.
What is meant by program parallelism Explain with a suitable example.
Give the block diagram of DMA controller and explain its working briefly.
10. Write short notes on any two of the following:
Hardwired Control
Virtual Memory
Superscalar Processor
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- Advance Microprocessor And Architecture
- Analog and Mixed Mode VLSI Design
- Analog Communication
- Analog Electronic Circuits
- Analog Integrated Circuits Design
- Antennas and Propagation
- B10-Informatics
- Basics Of Electronics Engineering
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Communication Networks
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- Device Modelling For Circuit Simulation
- Digital Electronics
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- Electromagnetic Field Theory
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- Information Theory And Coding
- Linear Integrated Circuits
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- Microprocessor And Its Applications
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- Optical Fiber Communication
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- Wireless Communication