Hall Ticket No Question Paper Code: BESB02
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
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M.Tech I Semester End Examinations (Regular) January, 2019
Regulation: IARE-R18
MICROCONTROLLERS AND PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
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. State and explain different operating modes of ARM Cortex-M3 processor.
Explain the Pipelining mechanism in Cortex M3 processor with the help of diagram.
2. Discuss the various blocks of ARM Cortex-M3 based controller.
Describe the processor memory map, the behavior of memory accesses, and bit band operation.

UNIT II
3. Explain the Interrupt Inputs and Pending behaviour in Cortex M3 processor with the help of
timing waveforms.
Explain with neat diagram the nested vector interrupt controller and its operation with entry
and exit.
4. Explain in detail about the interrupt priority logic.
Explain the interrupt pending register and interrupt mask register with an example.
UNIT III
5. Describe the feature and functionalities of LPC 17XX general purpose I/O (GPIO).
Explain the features of TIMER in LPC TIMER 17xx microcontroller and mention its applications.

6. Describe the features and benefits of LPC 17XX Microcontroller.
Explain the features of PWM in LPC 17xx microcontroller and mention its applications.

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UNIT IV
7. Briefly describe the Multi port memory of programmable DSP processors.
With neat diagram explain the Harvard architecture for programmable DSP Processors.
8. Explain with neat diagram of TI DSP processor family.
Discuss about MAC unit used in programmable DSP processors.
UNIT V
9. Explain the architecture of a typical VLIW processor in detail.
Describe the architectural details and features of a DSP TMS320C6000 series
10. Explain the assembly instructions memory addressing of VLIW processor with examples.
Explain in detail about the on chip peripherals and processor benchmarking.