Hall Ticket No Question Paper Code: BES003
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
(Autonomous)
M.Tech I Semester End Examinations (Supplementary) July, 2017
Regulation: IARE-R16
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Embedded Systems)
Time: 3 Hours Max Marks: 70
Answer ONE Question from each Unit
All Questions Carry Equal Marks
All parts of the question must be answered in one place only
UNIT I
1. Write briefly about the advantages of parallelism.
Discuss about principal of locality in detail.
2. Show that the ratio of the geometric means is equal to the geometric mean of the performance
ratios, and that the reference computer of SPEC Ratio matters not.
Write short notes on
i. Desktop bench marks
ii. Server bench marks.
UNIT II
3. Describe how to overcome Data Hazards with Dynamic Scheduling.
Explain the basic VLIW approach.
4. Explain static branch prediction and list out its techniques?
List out the limitations for hardware and software speculation to exploit ILP?
UNIT III
5. Briefly explain the different Cache performance techniques that can be used to improve miss
penalty and miss rate?
List and briefly explain the six basic cache optimizations.
6. Explain how the processes can be protected via virtual memory.
Difference between symmetric shared memory and distributed shared memory.
UNIT IV
7. Explain the concept of RAID and explain various levels.
List and explain various types of storage systems.
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8. Explain how IO Devices are connected to CPU/Memory using buses.
Explain the terms
i. dependability
ii. error latency
UNIT V
9. Describe the designing procedure for a cluster.
What are the media used for interconnecting networks?
10. Explain the practical issues in interconnecting networks?
Discuss the pros and cons of cost of clusters.