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1.a. How does LAN differ from WAN b. Listout the Design issues of layers 2. Explain TCP/IP reference model 3. Explain the stop and wait protocols 4. a. differentiate between circuit switching and pocket switching b. what are the functions of Data link Layer 5. a. Describe each of the states of the PPP b. Describe each of the states of the HDLC 6.a. Describe each of the states of the SLIP b. describe a protocol using go-back N 7.a. what is the difference b/n the information fields and HDLCU-Frame a. explain the Token ring used in LAN 8. Explain OSI reference model 9.Explain ALOHA and Carrier sense multiple access protocols 10. Differentiate IEEE 802.3 , Ethernet, IEEE 802.4 standards SATELLITE AND TV ENGG. 1. Explain separation of vertical and horizontal sync pulses in TV receiver with circuit 2. 3.

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diagram. Draw the AFC circuit and explain its operation Draw the block diagram of Monochrome TV receiver and explain in detail. Sketch the cross-sectional view of Monochrome picture tube and explain. Briefly Explain 625-B Monochrome TV standards. Explain vestigial sideband transmission used in television. Discuss the merits and demerits of positive and negative modulation and justify the choice of negative modulation in most TV systems.

8. Explain the working , operation principle of Image orthicon 9. Explain the block diagram of digital TV receiver 10. Differentiate b/n HDTV and Plasma TV INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING

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Explain the importance of Instantaneous codes. Explain the loss less source coding Explain entropy of a discrete Random variable-Joint Explain huffmans Coding Explain the Shanns Source coding Prove the theorem of Shannons channel coding Differentiate Gaussian channels and waveform channels Explain Differential Entropy and mutual imformation State and prove the Converse of Channel coding theorem. Explain Shannon limit

EMBEDDED 1.Differentiate b/n Microprocessor and micro controller 2.Enumerate the sequence of events that takes place in interrupt handling. 3.In what way a real-time operating system differs from the conventional operating systems 4. Enumerate the tests needed in a real-time system. 5. How a ISA bus architecture differs from that of PCI bus architecture ? 6. What problem might occur in a shared memory process communication? How can you overcome that problem ? illustrate with example. 7. What are the advantages of time slice scheduling in an RTOS? 8. What is the need of a well tested and debugged RTOS? 9. explain events and memory management in embedded systems 10. What are the parameters used to charecterize a real time task? 11. Distinguish b/n hard,soft and firm real time systems. 12. Listdown at least 3 tools that support the design and development of Embedded system. 13. how do you mean by realise time and response time of a real time tasks.

ADVANCED MICROPROCESSORS ARCHITECTURE 1. Explain various Technology Trends in Computer Industry 2. How to calculate cost of an Integrated Circuit and explain how cost becomes price by taking an example. Cost of an Integrated Circuit: 3. What is meant by Instruction Level Parallelism? Explain various techniques to implement ILP

4. A. What is CPI? How to calculate Pipeline CPI. B. Explain various types of Dependences in ILP. 5. Hardware versus Software Speculation Mechanisms 6. Explain various techniques for Reducing Cache Miss Penalty 7. Explain various techniques to reduce miss rate 8. What is virtual memory? Write techniques for fast address translation 9. What is Multithreading? How to exploiting TLP 10. What is Synchronization? Explain various Hardware Primitives