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M.E./M.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, JANUARY 2011. First Semester Applied Electronics (Common to VLSI Design and Communication Systems) 248103 ADVANCED MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLERS (Regulation 2010) Time : Three hours Answer ALL questions. PART A (10 2 = 20 marks) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What are the merits of RISC? What is paging? What is the function of memory management unit of a processor? How an interrupt in processed in a Pentium processor? Give two examples of Thumb instruction set. How multiple data are transferred using a single instruction in an ARM environment? How RTC is interfaced in 68HC11? How to program 68HC11 to operate at 9600 band? Draw the format of a data transfer packet of I2C. How many I/O ports are supported in a PIC microcontroller? Maximum : 100 marks
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PART B (5 16 = 80 marks) 11. (a) (i) (ii) Describe in detail about pipelining and its hazards. Write briefly about memory hierarchy. Or (b) (i) Discuss about the different types of instruction microprocessor architecture. Write a note on RISC. available in a (10) (6) (16) (10) (6)
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With suitable examples explain the addressing modes available in Pentium. (10) How multitasking is carried out in a Pentium environment? Explain. (6) Explain the bus architecture of an ARM processor. Write a program to sort N number of data. Or (8) (8)
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Write a program to find the cube of a given number using lookup table method. (7) Using PWM write a program to control the speed of motor using 68HC11. (8) Explain the serial communication interface of 68HC11. Or (8)
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Discuss about the A/D interface and the interrupt system of 68HC11. (10) 2
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Explain the modes of operation of timer in a PIC microcontroller. (8) Discuss about the VART interface of PIC microcontroller. Or (8)
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Discuss briefly the architecture of PIC microcontroller. Write a note on A/D converter and PWM in PIC microcontroller environment.
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